Politicians endorsing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's "Green New Deal" do so, not because they believe it will work, but because the penalty for not endorsing it would put them outside the radical transition team promoting socialism. Aside from the absurdity of the plan that assumes, without any factual basis, that the earth is getting warmer because of greenhouse gases produced by man, it talks about facing armageddon in as little as 12 years if The United States doesn't turn into little house on the prairie. Democrats like Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and Kirsten Gillibrand have endorsed Cortez's plan and are betting their political futures that Americans will find the plan's benefits worth the hardships surrounding the changes needed to be made. Changes that require a complete overhaul of America's infrastructure and energy source and cost trillions of dollars more than the entire US economy can afford.