As is probably news to nobody at this point, a few days ago Bubbles Cortez had a public town hall event where a woman stood up and went on and on about how the Green New Deal was cool and all, but it didn’t go far enough. Rather, in order to save the planet, we need to EAT THE BABIES. As it turned out, the woman was not a generic crackpot, but a plant from the Lyndon LaRouche PAC.
As anyone who remembers the 1980’s can attest, LaRouche was…interesting. He ran for President as an independent and sometimes as a Democrat running on policies that were part arch-conservative, part conspiracy theorist. He touted space-based weapons and fusion power, but thought the Brits were ruling the world or something and had his people protest Richard Wagner concert Because Reasons. But the important thing to remember was that for about the first half of his life he was a devoted Communist; when the Commies basically booted him out for being too weird even for them, he, like Mussolini before him, turned from a devoted and devout far leftist into a pseudo right-winger. Never, EVER trust anyone who was ever a Communist or a Socialist. Even if they come around and adopt conservative or right-wing policies, the stain of the Commies points out clearly that their ability to make good judgements is seriously impaired. They might be fine people of good moral character… just don’t let them anywhere near politics. LaRouche died earlier this year, bringing to an end a long and bizarre political career.
Anyway, LaRouchies remain and are about indistinguishable from cultists. So seeing them trolling modern Socialists? HILARIOUS. Whackos vs. whackos… is there anything better?
Still, the crazy lady (the one in the t-shirt, not Bubbles) raises and interesting thought. We’ve always thought that the “Green” in “Green New Deal” referred to nebulous “green” environmental policies. But when the woman went on about “eat the babies,” note what Bubbles *didn’t* say: “You’re wrong, eating children is not only not helpful, it’s evil.” At most she was annoyed that someone was taking the spotlight off her. So maybe “Green” refers to a different green:
Perhaps what the LaRouchie Lady has done is to expose the Green New Deal for what it is: a secret cabal of Cthulhu worshippers whose end goal actually is to eat the children, or at least feed them to their dark god. It makes sense: it is known that when Great Cthulhu wakens from his death-like slumber in sunken R’lyeh, he will “clear off” humanity from the world, laying low all the works of Man. What could be more in line with the goals of the Green New Dealers?
