Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Watermelon Crazed

Van Jones spent the 1990s as an avowed Communist. He is an unabashed political hater. He traffics in poisonous “truther” conspiracy theories about 9/11 as an inside job. And, yet, he is a mainstream figure within environmentalism. The real Jones scandal is less his wince-inducingly sophomoric radicalism than how comfortably he fits within the broader world of contemporary liberalism.

Even as Jones was forced from his position as the White House’s special adviser for green jobs, the Left had his back.
Jones calls his vision a “Green New Deal,” but it’s more of an American Great Leap Forward, giving “an honored place for labor and social activists” so they can “change the direction of our society.” The effort “will require a World War II level of mobilization.”

Lunacy? Not for enviros. As Gus Speth, a co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council, told
The New Yorker, “We in the environmental movement cannot fail Van Jones.”
What's green on the outside and red on the inside? Eco-socialism of course.