Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Releases Green New Deal Posters That Look Like Soviet Propaganda

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Releases Green New Deal Posters That Look Like Soviet Propaganda

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has launched a bizarre poster campaign in support of her Green New Deal.  You may recall that the Green New Deal is a laughable disaster that was first formulated simply as a means to “change the entire economy.”

I say the poster campaign is bizarre because I see no purpose in it at all . . . except perhaps to bait the right into calling it what is:  Soviet-style propaganda in support of Soviet-style communism.

Surprise!✨I am thrilled to announce the launch of our #GreenNewDeal art series with custom Bronx & Queens GND posters.

The Bronx edition poster will be given for free as a limited release to the public at our Pelham Bay Nature Day & Backpack Giveaway in the Bronx tomorrow.

/1 pic.twitter.com/xD4AinKrWi

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 30, 2019

Bronx & Queens art is where we’re starting, but we aspire to release custom #GreenNewDeal art for local communities across America.

We are also working on a line of GND reusables!

The first 250 prints will be released at Family Nature Day tomorrow, where we’re doing park tours: pic.twitter.com/AMrUX4etG5

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 30, 2019

She seems to have anticipated the pushback:

Our #GreenNewDeal posters are inspired by the original New Deal, updated for our future.

During the New Deal, FDR launched Federal One, a US project that employed 5,300 artists that created & taught art to envision America’s future.

Left, #TeamAOC; right, original US New Deal pic.twitter.com/l3PZzlEhzw

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 30, 2019

She claims the “art” will be distributed across America, presumably to help further brainwash the young and naive into embracing her bizarre, ill-considered, and quite ridiculous Green New Deal.

She tweeted that “These posters push us to imagine our future with a Green New Deal in two of our beloved NY-14 parks: Pelham Bay & Flushing Meadows.”  What does that even mean?  Push whom? She can do whatever she wants in her district, but pushing this insanity on the entire country is a non-starter, and these posters are the last way to go about banging her head against the Constitution.

Needless to say, the resemblance to Soviet-era propaganda did not go unnoticed.

https://twitter.com/RepStevenSmith/status/1167552815876771845

Reminds me of the childhood pic.twitter.com/m0QJ6qPUkM

— mzpinca (@mikhail1973) August 31, 2019

https://twitter.com/ShadesOfLiberty/status/1167518999736979456

Thought those looked familiar. #GreenNewDeal pic.twitter.com/GANeSM8yy3

— Gregory Coffin (GDX) 2.0 (@DrunkenAnarchi1) August 30, 2019

As noted by Timothy Meads writing at Townhall:

I’m not saying AOC did this on purpose, but it probably isn’t a great idea to have communism be the first thing that people think of when they look at posters for a new economic proposal which overhauls every aspect of your life and the economy.

Frankly, the resemblance is a bit too on the nose for me, and it makes me suspicious of her motives.  Then again, she may be completely unaware of the history of her chosen ideology?  Or perhaps she thinks America is ripe for a communist “evolution” if not revolution?

When even Buzzfeed sees the problem . . . .

I’m not saying the Green New Deal poster that AOC just tweeted reminds me of the WWII statue in Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) but here we are pic.twitter.com/FjB14jmzXz

— Miriam Elder (@MiriamElder) August 30, 2019

Meanwhile, other Twitter users just had fun with the idea.

https://twitter.com/RatherBeOffroad/status/1167676955736625152

Please send as many as are available to West Texas. We would love to hang one on every drilling rig, every completed well, pipeline right a way signs…the hrs are long, dirty work, miles of driving but these would bring so much laughter!

— Margaret (@redneckmattie) August 31, 2019

How about this one instead pic.twitter.com/SvomgRwE0n

— Gary Blois (@BloisGary) August 30, 2019

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