First, its not a ridiculous idea. Once again, you're framing the Democrats' position from the Republican point of view. Of course, they're going to frame it as a ridiculous idea. We don't have to be doing that for them.
Do you know what's in the Green New Deal? I'll give you a hint. Taking away peoples' cows is not in it. You know what the first steps it calls for? To update our infrastructure, our levees, roads and bridges, our coastline buildings, whatever else we need to be doing to mitigate the damage that is occurring from these once in a 100 years storms that we seem to be getting every year. What's it gonna cost? How much did we just give billionaires in the latest tax cuts? How much do we budget for our military every single year? How much will a 'space force' cost?
You people out in the Midwest ought to be eagerly supporting such measures, given what's been going on the past couple weeks there. Instead, you're just blithely dismissing it as "ridiculous"