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Over the last few months, Justice Democrats and progressives in Congress have done something incredible -- we have seized the attention of the Democratic Party, and brought a Green New Deal to the forefront of our national discourse.
It hasn’t been easy. Every
corner of the establishment has cried out that the Green New Deal is “a nice
organizing tactic,” but claims that we need to revert back to “what’s
possible.” In their view, our ambition is merely fantasy. But that’s only
because they don’t remember what we’ve been capable of before.
In 1940, we stood on the
precipice of catastrophe -- staring into the darkness presented by the rise of
fascism. FDR saw what needed to be done, and called for the creation of an
arsenal of democracy: 185,000 planes, 120,000 tanks, 55,000 anti-aircraft guns,
18 million tons of merchant shipping.
Hitler thought it was just
American propaganda. CEOs, generals, business leaders, you name it -- everyone
believed it wasn’t possible for a nation that had produced fewer than 3,000
planes just one year earlier to achieve global superpower status.
They were all wrong. Through
the power of our collective will, we blew past FDR’s ‘unrealistic goals,’ and
confronted the darkness of fascism together. We came together as a nation, and
we achieved the impossible because that is what our reality demanded.
Today, we confront another
form of darkness: the climate catastrophe that we have just 12 years to save
ourselves from. And the free market is not coming to save us -- it wasn’t in
1940, and it is not in 2018.
Together, we must fight
climate change with bold, unprecedented action without delay. But we need your
help to do it
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