February 2, 2021: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene - A "Cancer" on the Party

 

2/2/21: If you are a liberal, like this blogger, or an American with an undamaged frontal lobe, you understand. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has no more business serving in the U.S. House of Representatives than a Golden Retriever.

 

Greene has plenty of nutty theories – lasers from outer space started California forest fires, for example.

 

It’s her special brand of intolerance, however, that make her stand out. And let’s be honest. Golden Retriever’s are sweet-tempered dogs.

You might think a member of Congress would know this.

 

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“The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.”

 

Adolf Hitler

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Greene has suggested that those fire-starter lasers were controlled by Jewish bankers. That gives you a hint where she’s been coming from with her conspiracy theories. In 2018, she shared a video on her Facebook page from a Holocaust denier. Need a good reason to build that big border wall Trump always wanted? “Zionist supremacists,” warned the denier, “have schemed to promote immigration and miscegenation.”

 

So, Jews – when not busy zapping trees with lasers – wanted us to mix races? Where have we heard that before? 

Ah, yes! Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Racial purity, the Nazi dictator once insisted, was the fount of human progress. 

Individual freedom, he argued, mattered little. “The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.” When others talked of equal rights, he mocked such nonsense. “There is only one holiest human right, and this right is...to see to it that the blood is preserved pure.” 

Race-mixing was “the original sin.” It led to creation of monsters – creatures “halfway between ape and man.”

 

Sadly, in this country, in the time of Donald J. Trump, Greene’s stock took off with the rise of QAnon in 2016. In the believe-anything world of the modern Republican Party, Greene was a snug fit. 

 

Greene clearly failed to read the founding document. 

When President Trump attacked four Democratic members of “The Squad,” all by some “chance” women of color, two Muslim Americans, Greene was ready. She called the results of the elections in 2018 proof of “an Islamic invasion of our government.” She was Trump in a skirt. 

At one point, Greene argued that every elected official should be required to swear an oath on the Bible and promise to uphold the U.S. Constitution. This was interesting, if for no other reason, than that Greene had clearly failed to read the founding document (see: Article VI, Clause Three.)

 

That is: “No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”

 

You don’t have to swear an oath. You don’t need any religious book if you do. You can “affirm” that you will uphold the Constitution and you’re done.

 

Greene proved to be almost as adept at hating individuals and groups as her hero, Donald J. Trump. She attacked survivors of the Parkland high school massacre. She insisted the bloodbath at Sandy Hook was staged. She talked to the British racist, Katie Hopkins, who once compared dark-skinned immigrants sneaking into Europe to “cockroaches.” (That sounds like Nazi talk too.) Greene and Hopkins had a lovely, racist chat. Greene told her, “I would love to trade you for some of our white people here that have no appreciation for our country.”

 

Not known for standing strong in most situations, even Mitch McConnell had enough. Worried about the viability of the Republican Party in years to come, he made it clear. “Somebody who’s suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11,” Sen. McConnell explained, “that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr.’s airplane is not living in reality.” He called Greene’s ideas loony and called her a “cancer” on the party.

 

Well leave it at that.