I may not agree with everything AOC proposes but I've read the Green New Deal and think most of it is pretty moderate and worth some serious analysis. And keep in mind that this is not just a product of her imagination but a serious piece of work from a number of people including Thomas Friedman, the UK Green New Deal, and the Green Party. So I'd like to know which of her proposals you think are extreme or radical. FWIW I don't think they go far enough on climate change which threatens our very existence.

Excuse me/ There is nothing extreme about having the brains and guts to admit that the current mode of this industrial unsustainable capitalist world is what is extreme. To not see that is extreme.

@jerry99 Haven’t read it, but have relied on friends better schooled on both the politics and reality of it who’ve concluded it’s extreme and will hand the ugly R’s additional ammo to shoot down Dem candidates. It’s not that I don’t want it to happen - it’s that for it to happen it must survive our radicalized political system. I don’t think it can, or will.

@Healthydoc70 ...it is if you understand what it will take to implement it.. Bold, courageous & in-your-face works in some small pockets of ‘our nation,’ but in order to acquire a Congress capable enacting such ‘demands,’ it needs to get past the middle.

My comment had more to say about the state of US politics than the latest leftist talking point or demand/s. The nation does not need further polarization. Maybe it can not be reunited, and we’ll have to rely on the remainder of the world (for a change) to lead us.. But our latest flash-in-the-pan house rep. has a lot to learn, as do her cheerleaders ~

@Varn My point is that her proposals really are pretty moderate. Healthcare for all is not a wild-eyed radical position -- it's routine in most civilized countries. I agree that we we need to govern from the center -- it's just that our center has moved so far to the right that it's hard to remember how a reasonable government operates. I've posted a number of Green New Deal summaries on the [agnostic.com] group. Go take a look.