The prominence of Marjorie Taylor Greene is important. She represents insanity and corruption mated for the purposes of achieving power. None of it would be possible absent deep societal rot that tolerates rampant media, political and economic corruption. She has risen on currents of conspiracy theories, ignorance, idiocy and frivolousness that seethes, rages and threatens to wreck the country to sate its grievances — real and imagined.
The insurrection of January 6, 2021, was real. It occurred and we know every last detail around what happened, thanks to the exhaustive, thorough and bipartisan investigation and report from the January 6 Committee.
We know about the extremist groups that plotted against America with White House staffers and MAGA operatives.
We know about the conspiracies between the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.
We know about the lies and incitements and speeches and phone calls.
We know for sure that Capitol Police officers were beaten, bludgeoned and killed.
We know that the crowd wanted to hang Vice President Pence, and we know that it would have made Trump happy.
We know the mob defecated and urinated in the chambers of the US House of Representatives and Senate.
The entire nation and world watched in shock, dismay and horror as an American coup played out on live television in the third decade of the 21st century. The violence and mayhem ended the peaceful transition of power that began in 1797, and endured through assassination, presidential death, civil war, world wars, the Great Depression and resignation. It could not survive Donald Trump’s bruised ego, or the moral cowardice of the spineless MAGA Congress.
Last week, the perfidy and disgrace of the Murdoch family, Fox News, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson was further exposed. Incredibly, the show has rolled on unabated and unthreatened by the exposures and glaring light of transparency. The Murdoch empire has created a sensory deprivation chamber that has sealed off truth, reality and common sense from millions of Americans, who drink from the polluted information stream of which Fox News is at the headwaters. Soon, it will get worse.