{"id":4814,"date":"2021-03-29T16:33:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T16:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4814"},"modified":"2021-03-29T16:33:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T16:33:26","slug":"why-comparing-marjorie-taylor-greene-to-aoc-is-ridiculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4814","title":{"rendered":"Why comparing Marjorie Taylor Greene to AOC is ridiculous"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s alleged \u201cextremism\u201d is her advocacy of a democratic socialist politics common among peer democracies; her signature policy proposal is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2019\/1\/4\/18168431\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-70-percent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a top marginal tax rate of 70 percent<\/a>. Greene is a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22254103\/marjorie-taylor-greene-david-hogg-obama-hillary-facebook-posts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">conspiracy theorist<\/a>&nbsp;who has called for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/01\/26\/politics\/marjorie-taylor-greene-democrats-violence\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">executing Barack Obama<\/a>, claimed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22254103\/marjorie-taylor-greene-david-hogg-obama-hillary-facebook-posts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Parkland school shooting was staged<\/a>, and suggested&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22256258\/marjorie-taylor-greene-jewish-space-laser-anti-semitism-conspiracy-theories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a space laser controlled by wealthy Jews<\/a>&nbsp;caused the 2018 California wildfires.<br>One advocates for left-wing policy ideas in good faith; the other spreads absurd, offensive, and even dangerous lies.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The most interesting part about the AOC-MTG comparisons aren\u2019t the similarities between the two but rather the differences. That this is how \u201cextreme\u201d is defined with regard to each congressional delegation reveals that while one party has moved somewhat to the left in recent years, the other has flown completely off the deep end, breaking American politics in the process.It also shows how poorly equipped some members of the media are to convey this essential fact.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/22264412\/marjorie-taylor-greene-aoc-extremism-false-equivalence\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/22264412\/marjorie-taylor-greene-aoc-extremism-false-equivalence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s alleged \u201cextremism\u201d is her advocacy of a democratic socialist politics common among peer democracies; her signature policy proposal is a top marginal tax rate of 70 percent. Greene is a conspiracy theorist who has called for executing Barack Obama, claimed the Parkland school shooting was staged, and suggested a space laser controlled by wealthy Jews caused the 2018 California wildfires.<\/p>\n<p>One advocates for left-wing policy ideas in good faith; the other spreads absurd, offensive, and even dangerous lies.<\/p>\n<p>The most interesting part about the AOC-MTG comparisons aren\u2019t the similarities between the two but rather the differences. That this is how \u201cextreme\u201d is defined with regard to each congressional delegation reveals that while one party has moved somewhat to the left in recent years, the other has flown completely off the deep end, breaking American politics in the process.<\/p>\n<p>It also shows how poorly equipped some members of the media are to convey this essential fact.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[704,542,772],"class_list":["post-4814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-aoc","tag-congress","tag-ideology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4815,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814\/revisions\/4815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}