This slipped under our radar with all the competing stories coming out of CPAC. At the Trumpiest of Trumpy meetings, just a week and a half ago, Marjorie Taylor-Greene demonstrated why there really needs to be an entrance exam to run for office. It doesn’t need to be something difficult. Life experience is the most important background requirement for anyone wanting to serve in government. The test merely needs to be comprehensive enough to demonstrate that a politician can put some of that life experience to use.

Just as we have before, we suggest that a simple exam covering science, modern history, geography, U.S. Government, and English, would be sufficient. An exam of the type that a bright, high school kid could pass without missing a question.

Such an exam might weed out people like Marjorie Taylor-Green, who – at CPAC, said, “We believe our hard-earned tax dollars should just go for America. Not for, what? China, Russia, the Middle East, Guam, whatever, wherever,”

Yeah, whatever, Marj. Go to school. woman.

Guam is American. It is not a state, it is a territory. Guamanians are United States citizens. Guam sends non-voting delegates to the House. The delegates don’t have a vote, but they have something almost as important, a voice. Moreover, Guamanians are some of the best Americans. Guam is home to a major, and strategically important, military presence, with both a Navy port and an Air Force base. Many of the civilians on Guam work in service of the active-duty military, whether as employees on the base or contracting for duties on the base.

They also live halfway around the world, very separated from the mainland of their country, and yet remain loyal, say the Pledge of Allegiance, sing the U.S. National Anthem, and remain on the front lines in a volatile part of the world. If anything, they are better Americans than the type that forget about them.

Guamanians deserve better than Marjorie Taylor Greene. We all do.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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