{"id":42717,"date":"2019-01-14T06:15:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T11:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42717"},"modified":"2019-01-14T06:15:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T11:15:54","slug":"a-green-future-is-one-without-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42717","title":{"rendered":"A Green Future is One Without War"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/01\/14\/a-green-future-is-one-without-war\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">A Green Future is One Without War<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p>Donald Trump and his base \u2014 the leftover scraps of Jim Crow, the broken shards of racist hatred that once were the American mainstream and made the country seem \u201cgreat\u201d to those who weren\u2019t its victims \u2014 have, it appears, a crucial role to play in our future.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump is the increasingly naked truth. He\u2019s what we have wound up with: a raw, uncensored scapegoating and fear-mongering that\u2019s too much for most of the American public. And thus the political center, the military-industrial-media consensus that has ruled the country for the past four and a half decades, pushing progressive values to the margins of American politics, is unraveling. Centrist compromise, which birthed the Trump presidency, can\u2019t mask the truth anymore.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time to evolve.<\/p>\n<p>If we don\u2019t, we\u2019re stuck in the mire of racism, exploitation, empire and war. We\u2019re stuck in the dead past, which has given us the current state of Planet Earth: a planet at war with itself in multiple ways. We\u2019re stuck in a dead past and a dying future.<\/p>\n<p>This is the context, I believe, in which we should evaluate the Green New Deal, which may well be the most brightly shining political ideal to emerge on the national horizon in my Boomer lifetime. Here\u2019s how one of the Deal\u2019s arch enemies, Justin Haskins of the Heartland Institute, described it recently in the Washington Examiner:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMake no mistake about it: This is one of the most dangerous and extreme proposals offered in modern U.S. history. It\u2019s the sort of thing you\u2019d see in the Soviet Union, not the United States. If we don\u2019t stop the Green New Deal, our economy may not survive. This isn\u2019t a battle we can afford to lose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Green Future is One Without War Donald Trump and his base \u2014 the leftover scraps of Jim Crow, the broken shards of racist hatred that once were the American mainstream and made the country seem \u201cgreat\u201d to those who weren\u2019t its victims \u2014 have, it appears, a crucial role to play in our future. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[5493,7844,23450,20334,862],"class_list":["post-42717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-geopolitics","tag-counterpunch","tag-donald-trump","tag-green-new-deal","tag-robert-koehler","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42718,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42717\/revisions\/42718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}