Marjorie Taylor Green has taken the country by storm—and perhaps, soon, by storm troopers. She is fascinating, frightening, and freaky—so far out in left field that she may soon be orbiting the earth in her own special pod.
Even before she ran for office, she established herself as a force to contend with when, armed with a microphone and camera, she chased one of the Stoneman Douglas High School massacre survivors down the street in Washington, D.C. and verbally harassed him for going to Congress to lobby for more stringent gun legislation. At the same time, she subscribed to the QAnon conspiracy theory that school shootings were false flag operations perpetrated by the “deep state.”
Watching a deranged, aggressive grown-up shrieking at a traumatized adolescent on his way to share his concerns with legislators, was just breathtaking. Breathtaking as in, “I’m having an asthma attack and lost my inhaler.”
Since being elected to the House of Representatives, Greene has distinguished herself as a complete lunatic. Prior to her election to the House, she suggested executing Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and assorted FBI agents. After she was elected to Congress, she circulated a petition to impeach and execute Nancy Pelosi for “treason.” Pelosi’s high crime? Not voting for Trump’s border wall.
Ms. Greene continually asserted that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump by Joe Biden, in spite of having zero evidence substantiating that claim. Later, after it became clear that the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol were hardly the peaceful tourists that she and some of her associates claimed they were, she blamed the insurrection on Antifa.
In case you are not yet aware, the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and white supremacists who stormed the Capitol were not members of Antifa. They were members of right-wing, paramilitary hate groups. Antifa had not one thing to do with the insurrection. I am confident that Ms. Greene has no idea that Antifa stands for Anti-fascist and is simply a term referring to a loose conglomeration of all sorts of people who prefer to live in a country free of racism, antisemitism, xenophobia, homophobia, sexism, and fascism. Antifa is the antithesis of the organizations and individuals who attempted to overthrow our government on January 6, 2021.
One of the most stunning things about Ms. Greene is her steadfast adherence to some of the most bizarre conspiracy theories emerging from the darkest corners of the internet. She has proposed that Hillary Clinton is the ringleader of a cabal of Democrats who are kidnapping children; holding them hostage in the basement of a Washington, D.C. pizzeria; sex trafficking them; and then, as a grand finale, eating them. That yarn, as well as the nonsense about California wildfires being set by Jewish space lasers and her insistence that the September 11 attacks were a hoax, are only a small sample of her whacko assertions.
Just when one thinks that she has exhausted every available drop of crazy within her, she somehow receives a fresh transfusion from whatever madhouse is providing her special brand of whacko-juice. Recently, she has spent some of her boundless energy considering a plan for red states to secede from the union. So far, the particulars of the secession are few and leave plenty of room for conjecture.
Apparently, former blue-staters living within the borders of her new country will be denied full citizenship for at least five years while they are deprogramed and cleansed of their liberal ideologies. Public education will green-light Christian prayer in the classroom, and it stands to reason that the curriculum will be scrubbed of non-Christian concepts such as the theory of evolution. She has not yet made clear whether they intend to burn all the books on the Forbidden List, or whether blue states can have them back.
Other details are even fuzzier. Will she take a sharpie and draw a line straight down the middle of her map of the soon-to-be-former United States? Vertical or horizontal? Which half is she taking? Will she prevent an influx of “undesirables” by building a big cinderblock wall around the new, improved Confederate States of America?
On that note, will there be civil rights legislation, or will civil rights be scrapped in favor of re-enacting the Slave Codes?
So many details to consider.
I’m tempted to send a letter to Ms. Greene reminding her that the last time a group of states tried to secede from the union, it didn’t turn out very well for them, but, at this point, it might not be all that difficult for her to pull it off. She is absolutely right on one count: The culture wars that she and her compatriots have waged for years for their own political benefit have resulted in what may now be an unbridgeable chasm between the formerly united United States of America.
