The crazies are coming!

I learned yesterday, reading the piece at reference 1, about a congresswoman called Marjorie Taylor Greene. A lady of extreme, not to say bizarre, views who represents the electors of Georgia's 14th congressional district. Before entering politics in 2015 or so, her experience in the real world looks to amount to having participated in the founding of a branch of the CrossFit franchise, a gym for people who want to be, or at least to look, muscle bound. There is a big branch under the arches at Clapham Junction, a branch where I occasionally notice the performance of seriously muscular feats.

In the elections of 2020 she got well over 200,000 of the 300,000 or so votes available in her district, so clearly lots of people think that she is a good thing. Notwithstanding, she was expelled from house committees in 2021 for bad behaviour, but has now been reinstalled in three such committees, part of the deal to confirm Kevin McCarthy as (Republican) speaker of the House, an event noticed a few weeks ago now at reference 4. Two of these committees, the Committee on Oversight and Accountability and the Committee on Homeland Security, look quite important. Not really good places for crazies.

But she is a big fan of Trump, one of the many undesirables attracted to his tent.

It struck me yesterday that Putin, another politician with bizarre views, seemingly close to all  kinds of organised crime, must attract lots of undesirables to his tent too. 

Undesirables whom might prove hard to put back in their boxes in both the US and Russia. Something which I dare say more mainstream people in both places will come to be sorry about.

References

Reference 1: America’s new McCarthyism — this time as farce: Unlike his 1950s forebear, Kevin McCarthy has no known beliefs - Edward Luce, Financial Times - 2023.

Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Taylor_Greene.

Reference 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrossFit.

Reference 4: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2023/01/political-parties.html.

Reference 5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Point_Community_Church. Greene was born into a Catholic family, left over the child abuse scandal and threw in her lot with this lot. With the mother church accommodating 5,000 people to its services. A little to the north of Atlanta, in a place called Alpharetta, around 55% white non Hispanic. Which leads me to wonder about who exactly these people are. Church snapped above.