Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is once again making headlines, this time calling on Americans to challenge—and even overthrow—the federal government.
During a Wednesday interview with conservative podcaster Shipwreck, Greene framed the American public as “forgotten” and vastly underestimating their own power.
“I call them the forgotten American man and woman,” she said. “That is the largest group of Americans. And I think, in my opinion, that is the most powerful group of Americans.”
Greene suggested that this group—she estimates roughly 100 million people—has the potential to not just “rein in” the government but to actively take it down.
“They could rein in their government like that. Not only could they rein it in, they could overthrow it,” she remarked. “That’s about 100 million Americans, right?”
She went further, proposing a mass refusal to pay taxes as a tool for demonstrating power.
“Let’s say 100 million Americans that say, f– you to the government and refuse to pay their taxes. This is how to do it.”
Greene did not hold back in describing what she sees as government exploitation.
“It rapes you every single day,” she said. “Social Security, you pay in and your Social Security check, and your employer matches it for all these years, and you retire and you get like a diddly $1,500 a month. I mean, that is such a pathetic joke.”
She emphasized that if Americans actually mobilized, the entire federal government—including Congress, the Senate, and the administration—would be forced to answer to the people.
“So when I tell you, look, I am dead serious about the American people,” Greene said. “If they really wanted to, everybody I work with, all of my colleagues, everybody in the government, they would be terrified to talk to a lobbyist or talk to a foreign government or they would be terrified to, to step out of line if the American people got serious about forcing Congress and the Senate and the administration, no matter who’s serving, to serve them, serve the people.”
Watch the full interview below:
