[sanderjd]

A big problem I have with things like "the green new deal" is that they are buzzwords onto which many different policies can be mapped. I think to lots of people it implies no nuclear, and to some others it doesn't. Both are "right" because the buzzword has no implicit meaning.

[pwinnski]

I'm not sure how that can be true, given that it's a written proposal[0]. Not many have read it, and certainly both opponents and proponents have made up things that are or are not in it, but it's not just a buzzword.

https://docsend.com/view/8gxh826

[JumpCrisscross]

A lot of the text describes the goals of, and route to, a plan. It is not, itself, actual policy.

[sanderjd]

Its existence as a buzzword predates that proposal, and thus inevitably the proposal is not the final word on how the term is defined.