by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
Congresswoman (and under-appreciated great thinker) Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is back to bellowing about the need for a national divorce. In a tweet yesterday, or perhaps the day before, Greene points her ever-judgmental finger at a nebulous "they" whom she seems to believe killed a popular conservative media personality at an outdoor speaking event at a college in Utah. She then decries the "millions on the left" whom she says celebrated the event. Trump also blames that tragic shooting on "radical leftists," even though a clean-cut young Mormon man who grew up in a gun-drenched, religious, Republican household has stepped forward and admitted to the crime.
MTG, like Trump, never lets facts get in the way. Here is the meat of her post:
"They assassinated our nice guy who actually talked to them peacefully debating ideas. Then millions on the left celebrated and made clear they want us all dead. To be honest, I want a peaceful national divorce. Our country is too far gone and too far divided, and it's no longer safe for any of us."
Your pronouns wreak of divisiveness, congresswoman - they and them, our and us. You speak like the spouse who has already mentally checked-out of the marriage. Your hyperbole of "millions on the left" is such an extreme exaggeration that it undermines your message.
We did the "national divorce" thing over a century and a half ago. It brought the entire nation to the brink of ruin, and the catastrophic damage inflicted by Americans on Americans took decades to repair. Hatred born of that time still festers today and is nurtured in some of the highest offices in the land. Divorce didn't work then, and today with so many blue dots in red states and red dots in blue states, a divorce would be a house-by-house, block-by-block catastrophe.
You are a member of Congress, a power player in the government, and you are in a position to actually do something positive toward fixing the problem you so aptly describe. Get serious and reach across the aisle. Grab a pen and a notebook, invite a Democratic congressperson to lunch, and start coming up with some baby steps in the long march to national sanity.
United we could stand for another 250 years - divided we will surely fall - all of us.
1 comment:
MTG probably won’t die on that hill. When she goes home and goes shopping in the grocery store, those good folk say, “Right on” or probably, “Y’all doing us a good job there, Marg”.
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