Who Needs Russians When You Have 'Justice Democrats'

[PatrickforO]

38. Hmm. Well, I had to check myself, so

I went into twitter and found Justice Democrats, and the Sunrise Movement. I watched the video with Senator Feinstein. The video was not doctored. It was 2 minutes long because that was all Twitter allows to be posted.

Now, the primary funders of the Sunrise Movement are: Wallace Global Fund, which was instrumental in the fossil fuel divestment campaign, as do the Rockefeller Family Fund (one of the smaller foundations associated with the oil family), and the Winslow Foundation, run by Wren Winslow Wirth, who is married to former politician Tim Wirth. Institutional funders made up about 55 percent of its 2018 budget, with 35 percent coming from individual donors, and the rest from nonprofit partners.

As to the Rockefeller Family Fund, its MISSION STATEMENT: Rockefeller Family Fund is a U.S.-based, family-led public charity that initiates, cultivates, and funds strategic efforts to promote a sustainable, just, free, and participatory society. Martha, John, Laurance, Nelson, and David Rockefeller created the Rockefeller Family Fund (RFF) in 1967. Since then, RFF has worked at the cutting edge of advocacy in such areas as environmental protection, advancing the economic rights of women, and helping citizens hold public and private institutions accountable for their actions. RFF is known for its creative grantmaking, its role as a catalyst in the nonprofit as well as the funding communities, and its record of public policy innovation.

Now, here's my take on that video of Feinstein. She came across as being pretty condescending. Those kids aren't going away, and my children and grandchildren need the Green New Deal NOW.

NOW.

I don't care if it is politically awkward. Not at all. This is an existential thing where our species, loathsome as we are, is running at breakneck speed toward a cliff. We only have one earth and this is it. We are fouling it so badly RIGHT NOW that we risk it becoming virtually uninhabitable for our grandchildren and their children just for the sake of the short-term profits of a bunch of oil companies.

Did Feinstein look bad? You bet. Should she be embarrassed about her performance in front of these kids? You bet. Should she change her tune and get a little bit more vigorous in SAVING OUR SPECIES from having to breathe through masks in fifteen years? You bet.

As to damaging the Democratic party....HOW? How does speaking truth to power ever do damage.

No, I'm going to disagree vigorously with you. We need that Green New Deal right now. AOC is right. Sunrise is right. Those kids are right. Feinstein is wrong. To my mind, calling her on the carpet for being wrong in this case does absolutely NO damage to the Democratic Party and in fact makes it stronger.