I am not, by any means, a fan of Marjorie Taylor Greene, pictured above. Greene is a Republican, and is a Member of Congress who represents the 14th Congressional District in Georgia. I do want to say, though, that an article in the September 29, 2025, edition of The New York Times demonstrates to me that Greene absolutely "gets it," with respect to how our national government is supposed to work.
The article documented Greene's willingness to take positions contrary to those of our current president. Here's the quote that impressed me (emphasis added):
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, the right-wing Republican from Georgia, did not appreciate being threatened by the White House over her backing for a bill ordering the release of the Epstein files.
So after a Trump official put out word that doing so would be viewed as a “very hostile act,” she called a top West Wing aide to push back.
“I told them, ‘You didn’t get me elected. I do not work for you; I work for my district.’”
What Greene said about her personal relationship to the voters in the district she represents in Congress is absolutely how our system of representative self-government is supposed to work. Members of Congress are elected by the voters in the districts that they represent. Those voters is who they work for.
Here's an important corollary. We, the voters, need to make sure that our elected representatives in Congresss do, in fact, work for us, and that they do what we want them to. Many elected officials don't seem to appreciate that things are, in fact, supposed to work as Marjorie Taylor Greene said, and appear to think that they work for the political party with which they are affiliated - or, even worse, for the major donors to their campaigns.
We can make our elected representatives do what we want them to do. However, we can only do that if we are willing to get personally inovlved in politics ourselves, and to spend whatever time will be necessary on insure that our "representatives" do, in fact, do what we want. That takes a lot of work (though I will say, from personal experience, that getting involved in politics is, more than anything, lots of fun).
With respect to the quote I highlighted, above, Marjorie Taylor Greene "gets it."
It's time that we all "get it," too, and then get to work on making sure that our elected "representatives," at every level of government, actually do represent us!
Image Credit:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/us/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-maga-split.html
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