The Marjorie Taylor Greene thread.

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The best "Culture Wars" are always ones that are so incredibly undefined that you can just always be a contrarian jerkwad to anyone that pisses you off and act like you are "Fighting to the Good Fight."
 
ponderingturtle said:
She wasn't voted on to be effective, she was elected to troll the libs. No one else could do that job as well. She is a lock, because she is the most in touch with the republican base.
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I think if you want to understand the right wing base you need to consider the Capitol insurrection as emblematic. They are so convinced of the depths of the conspiracies they've been fed that they see their best vindication in revolt, failure and collapse, a holocaust they childishly expect to survive. They'd hate to admit it, but I think the nearest relatives of that base are terrorists who bomb buses.
 
I think an insight into the minds of Greene supporters can be gleaned from a comment I saw on a local Georgia news site. The reporter visited Greene's district to talk to voters. Those who were critical of Greene were very critical but remember, she won her district in a landslide with 74% of the vote.

The reporter asked voters about the image [below] that Greene tweeted. It shows Green in sunglasses holding a military-style rifle, with photos of Representatives Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The caption reads, "Squad's Worst Nightmare." The reporter asked, "Was this offensive?"

One woman, an older middle-class lady, well-groomed, nicely dressed, answered, no it was not offensive. She explained, something along the lines, "What is offensive to me is these people coming here to change our way of life." She said that was very offensive. Who are they, where do they think they get the right to change how we live?

What was she talking about? How are Omar, Pressley and Ocasio-Cortex trying to change this woman's way of life? The lady probably couldn't have explained. But she knows society is changing and, rather than deal with it, she is looking for an easy solution. Find scapegoats and attack them. That seems to be a fairly wide-spread attitude. I know many people in New York with the same attitude. Greene might do well in certain districts in Staten Island, for instance. ;)
 

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One woman, an older middle-class lady, well-groomed, nicely dressed, answered, no it was not offensive. She explained, something along the lines, "What is offensive to me is these people coming here to change our way of life." She said that was very offensive. Who are they, where do they think they get the right to change how we live?
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She's also blowing the dog whistle of racism with the highlighted part. People like her still view "native" Americans as exclusively white (while conveniently forgetting that the actual native population even exists). Anyone with darker skin, a religion other than Protestant Christianity, or a non northern European sounding name can be dismissed as an outsider who has unjustly infiltrated their perfect, white world and is bent on destroying them. It doesn't matter that Pressley was born in Cincinnati, or that Ocasio-Cortez was born in New York City to Puerto Rican parents, and that Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens. All that matters is that they're messing up their perfect white world.
 
newyorkguy said:
I think an insight into the minds of Greene supporters can be gleaned from a comment I saw on a local Georgia news site. The reporter visited Greene's district to talk to voters. Those who were critical of Greene were very critical but remember, she won her district in a landslide with 74% of the vote.

The reporter asked voters about the image [below] that Greene tweeted. It shows Green in sunglasses holding a military-style rifle, with photos of Representatives Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The caption reads, "Squad's Worst Nightmare." The reporter asked, "Was this offensive?"

One woman, an older middle-class lady, well-groomed, nicely dressed, answered, no it was not offensive. She explained, something along the lines, "What is offensive to me is these people coming here to change our way of life." She said that was very offensive. Who are they, where do they think they get the right to change how we live?
What was she talking about? How are Omar, Pressley and Ocasio-Cortex trying to change this woman's way of life? The lady probably couldn't have explained. But she knows society is changing and, rather than deal with it, she is looking for an easy solution. Find scapegoats and attack them. That seems to be a fairly wide-spread attitude. I know many people in New York with the same attitude. Greene might do well in certain districts in Staten Island, for instance. ;)
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Where is "here" for this little old lady? Does she think The Squad have moved in next door to her? Or in the same block? Or city? They live and work thousands of miles away, yet somehow they are coming "here" to make her particular life hell.

The ignorance is staggering.
 
Norman Alexander said:
Where is "here" for this little old lady? Does she think The Squad have moved in next door to her? Or in the same block? Or city? They live and work thousands of miles away, yet somehow they are coming "here" to make her particular life hell.

The ignorance is staggering.
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She means "White, Evangelical-Southern Baptist-type-Christian America" because to people like her that is 'here'.
 
Just one of the many who are too cowed by the threat of others to uncheck the prechecked (scam) boxes in the RNC fundraising emails. I wonder if there will be any outraged defections about that.
 
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