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AOC's Green New Deal Is a U.S. Version of Mao's Disastrous Great Leap Forward

• https://fee.org, William L. Anderson

In what its supporters have claimed is "visionary," congressional media darling Alexandria Occasio-Cortez (AOC) has released her short-awaited Green New Deal, and she has called for nothing short of the destruction of life as we have known it:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she has no qualms about acknowledging a so-called "Green New Deal" will mean unprecedented governmental intrusion into the private sector. Appearing on NPR, she was asked if she's prepared to tell Americans outright that her plans involve "massive government intervention."

On one level, AOC is being honest; such a plan would be unprecedented, at least in the United States, but it would hardly be the first government-led massive intrusion into a nation's economy. The 20th century was full of such intervention, beginning with World War I and continuing through the years of communist governments. The century was full of intervention, and the earth was full of the dead bodies to prove it.


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