“Labor will walk if the Green New Deal moves forward”

There is a widening gulf between working class, and the “woke class” in the Democratic Party. The first group is mostly suburban and rural. The latter TYPOin crammed into the megalopolises on the West Coast and in the Northeast. The 2 groups live in very different worlds.

(From Forbes)

Noting the looming challenge of reconciling the ambitious reordering of the economy in the name of reducing carbon dioxide emissions, Jessica Levinson, a professor who teaches politics and ethics at Loyola Law School, said, “The Green New Deal may be the darling of the Democratic Party — but it really divides the Democrats on a fault line, which is more of the elites against the working class Democrats who are concerned about losing their jobs.”

And while politicians who support the Green New Deal contend that they will spend billions to retrain workers who lose their jobs because of the newly planned economy, Levinson notes that workers in the skilled trades “don’t necessarily want to be retrained… nor is it even possible.”