Between the wall and the Green New Deal

By Gonzalo López Martí – Creative Director, etc / LMMiami.com

To my surprise, I must admit that I recently found myself agreeing with the POTUS on two issues:

  1. Pulling troops out of the Middle East.
  2. The Green New Deal co-written by Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez reads like a hastily researched term paper by some liberal arts freshman

I took the time to sift through the Green New Deal’s pompous bullet points.

If a sizable section of the Democratic Party really believes there is serious, actionable policy somewhere in that fairy tale, we are in trouble.

See, the Democratic Party has a daunting task ahead of it: unseating the man child in the White House.

I’d dare say an awful lot of true conservatives and libertarians are quietly working towards the same goal.

The GOP in its current iteration seems to be hijacked by a small faction of parvenus, crony capitalists and closeted klansmen.

While Ronald Reagan rolls in his grave, the Democratic Party has the historic opportunity to portray itself as the party of opportunity (pun intended).
The choice of common sense, inclusion, compassion and moderation.

The option of the silent, centrist majority.

The hard-working class.

If the Dems position themselves as a coalition of lightweights, identity politicking, snowflakes, single-issue loonies and “socialist revolutionaries” it will shoot itself in the foot big time.

As if it weren’t enough to have an old career politician talking about “socialist revolutions” –Bernie-, now we have a brand-new star peddling the same dangerous nonsense.

She is not a 16-year-old kid trying to look or sound rebellious or a greying curmudgeon stuck in the 60s like uncle Bernie.

She is 30 and she is a congresswoman representing, whether she likes it or not, a demographic who happens to be in this country fleeing precisely the political ideas she advocates.

Anyway.

The party has many names to inoculate itself against the likes of Alexandria and Bernie.

Namely Elizabeth Warren.

Sen. Warren has a long career in academia, she is an expert in economic legislation, she has worked in the private sector, she was a Republican for a number of years and switched to the other side. She started her political career in her 50s. She is a mother and a grandmother.

This is a person with experience, personal and professional.

Save for that silly ancestry imbroglio, her track record is as clean as it gets.

I am NOT endorsing her here.

However, I have to say that I wouldn’t mind a person with her profile and background to be in office.

She is exactly my kind d of politician: boring, professorial, wonkish, utterly uncharismatic and unable to concoct a catchphrase.

A librarian-in-chief.

A person who, despite the odd soundbite and rosy campaign promise, knows full well that, like everything else in life, prosperity and progress come slowly and incrementally.

I’d dare say that’s exactly what we Latinos came to this country in search for: predictability, the rule of law, meritocracy, boredom.

Colorful charismatic larger-than-life personalities with a chip on their shoulder and prone to public histrionics?

Socialist revolutions?

Wishful thinking?

Fairy tale promises and unrealistic shortcuts?

Thank you but no, thank you.

We’ve had enough of that back home.

At this pace, the POTUS will not need to build his friggin’ wall.

With people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the Capitol, Latinos will stay in their home countries in the first place.

 

 

 

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