Beware! Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Is the ‘Green New Deal in Disguise’

When Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez co-sponsored the Green New Deal in 2019, most people ridiculed the plan as the ravings of a misguided millennial. The measures seemed outlandish in the face of an economy built on fossil fuels, unlimited travel, and global abundance. Many dismissed her notions as political fantasy.

However, such outlandish proposals have a role in history. The celebrated Catholic thinker Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira notes that the left uses programs like the Green New Deal to advance its agendas. It promotes extreme radicals that often fail in their goals in the short term. However, he writes that “The explosion of these extremisms raise a standard and create a fixed target whose very radicalism fascinates the moderates, who slowly advance toward it.” 

Thus, the American left has used its radicals to plant an eco-standard far ahead of where society is willing to go. The Green New Deal played this role by shocking the complacent and moderate sectors of public opinion. In the short term, the impact led many to reject its outlandish proposals immediately. The term Green New Deal became so toxic that even Democrats avoided its use.  However, the mesmerized center has gradually moved toward this fixed standard of extremism and accepted many of its basic tenets. 

“Moderate” Democrats like Joe Biden ran on a platform that denied support for the Green New Deal. He deemed it too radical and proposed lesser measures to attract voters. The left uses this strategy when it perceives its proposals are not popular. This ploy reveals the weakness of the left that must always hide its true intentions from the public.

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