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Because AOC and Democrats didn't expect a vote on it yet, they explicitly said they wanted this to be a nonpartisan dialouge, not a partisan power-move.
The Republicans would simply not hear it, and elected to deny public hearings and expert testimony.
You do not introduce a resolution unless you want a vote, that is like the purpose of a resolution.
If they wanted this to be just dialogue, then it should have stayed as such, instead, they created a resolution.
How can you have a "nonpartisan dialoge" with crazed people who insist the world is ending in 12 years, that we have to stop flying planes and eating hamburgers? And they are absolutely intolerant of any view but theirs.
Ain't happening.
It's impossible to have any nonpartisan dialogue with crazed Republicans. This much they have demonstrated with this ridiculous snubbing stunt. The dialogue will continue, even if Republicans are intolerant of it.
Scientists are not ridiculous people, and they are not saying that the world is ending. They are merely talking the truth about irreparable harm. It's just irreparable harm to the environment, though, nothing that will hurt the Rich that greatly.
The Green New Deal (as it currently stands as a bunch of platitudes) does not including not flying planes or not eating hamburgers. These are talking points that Republicans have been misleading their voters with for ages. Liberals like driving cars, flying planes, and eating the cheap garbage left-overs of food processing, just like Republicans do.
They are also aware of what scientists have found are the causes of Expected Physics.
Thus the open dialogue would have allowed scientists and anyone the public wanted (including even maybe the "greatly oppressed" mega-wealthy fossil fuel CEOs) to discuss this with the public.
Because AOC and Democrats didn't expect a vote on it yet, they explicitly said they wanted this to be a nonpartisan dialouge, not a partisan power-move.
The Republicans would simply not hear it, and elected to deny public hearings and expert testimony.
There was no bill, no details, nothing. The whole thing only shows how low DC has sunk.
AOC is a walking, talking slap in the face to America. It's criminal that hard working Americans have to pay taxes to subsidize this socialists existence. We deserve better.
Because it wasn’t going to pass anyways. The Green Deal as it stands is very vague and even environmentalists have said its unrealistic at the time. The vote was for the Republicans to use it as an example of AOC running the Dem party. It failed
Then why put it up when it is very vague and unrealistic? It isn't even realistic enough to start a conversation. It is fantasy. A waste of time.
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