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Marianne Williamson sees the Bernie Sanders Lane as her's
Marianne Williamson sees the Bernie Sanders Lane as her's
By Sumela
22 Jun 2023 7:03 pm in No Holds Barred Political Forum
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....but at heart Im a pretender...Mrkelly » 09 Jul 2023, 4:25 pm » wrote: ↑ [img]blob:70471dba-debf-4b31-8e73-50a368996155[/img]
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11 Jul 2023 2:23 pm
Enough with the dumb jokes about crystals. You should take Marianne Williamson and her politics seriously.
The first thing I notice over tea in Tribeca last week with the author and presidential candidate Marianne Williamson is that there’s nothing silly about her. Williamson speaks bluntly, laser-focused on the dangers that American-style capitalism poses to our planet, our lives, and our well-being.
During our interview, her answers are sometimes so concise and on point they seem to challenge my questions.
As soon as we sit down, I ask her what experiences convinced her that our current spiritual crisis was a collective one, a social disease.
“I never thought it wasn’t,” she says, looking almost annoyed.
Williamson is serious. This must be said, because the Democratic Party’s gatekeepers are doing their best to marginalize and mock her. When asked if the president was annoyed that Williamson had announced her primary run, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre had a mean-girl moment: “I’m not tracking that. I mean, if I had a, what is it called? A little globe here, a crystal ball… if I could feel her aura.”
Liberal media outlets have dismissed Williamson as “quirky” and identified her as “Oprah Winfrey’s spiritual adviser.” Much has been made of the fact that she once lived in a geodesic dome. More inexplicably, centrist and progressive pundits have been dismissing her ideas. Slate denigratedWilliamson’s speeches as “the ramblings of an inspirational speaker . . . devoid of meaning.”
Seeking is not my vibe, and I mistrust gurus. I was prepared to roll my eyes at least a little bit at Williamson. But a few minutes into conversation with this author of thirteen books, seven of them bestsellers, I realized the media portrayal of her was propagandistic nonsense. I had to wonder who the mainstream media has been describing: not the smart, well-spoken, righteously outraged woman sitting across from me.
Williamson, now seventy, was raised on left-wing values. Her father, a World War II veteran and an immigration lawyer, was a United Auto Workers organizer in the 1930s. When he was a child, she says his own father, a railroad worker, took him to hear Eugene Debs speak.
While for decades she has been a writer and speaker on spiritual matters, Williamson has recently begun taking a more political approach to our collective malaise, as she did in the 2019 book A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution and in her 2020 Democratic primary campaign.
Marianne Williamson speaks onstage at Guerrilla Tactics & Asymmetric Political Activism during the 2022 SXSW Conference and Festivals at Hilton Austin on March 14, 2022, in Austin, Texas. (Mike Jordan / Getty Images for SXSW)
It’s a chilly spring day, but we sit outside because the cafe is closing. Williamson isn’t warmly dressed but graciously adapts to our situation, ordering a hot tea and sitting in the fading late afternoon sun.
She explains her shift from spiritual teacher to political candidate by describing the distress she’s witnessed in recent decades.
As someone people turn to when they’re in trouble — a clergyperson for the unchurched — she has seen up close how neoliberalism is “devastating people’s lives,” she says.
https://jacobin.com/2023/04/marianne-wi ... ing-people
The first thing I notice over tea in Tribeca last week with the author and presidential candidate Marianne Williamson is that there’s nothing silly about her. Williamson speaks bluntly, laser-focused on the dangers that American-style capitalism poses to our planet, our lives, and our well-being.
During our interview, her answers are sometimes so concise and on point they seem to challenge my questions.
As soon as we sit down, I ask her what experiences convinced her that our current spiritual crisis was a collective one, a social disease.
“I never thought it wasn’t,” she says, looking almost annoyed.
Williamson is serious. This must be said, because the Democratic Party’s gatekeepers are doing their best to marginalize and mock her. When asked if the president was annoyed that Williamson had announced her primary run, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre had a mean-girl moment: “I’m not tracking that. I mean, if I had a, what is it called? A little globe here, a crystal ball… if I could feel her aura.”
Liberal media outlets have dismissed Williamson as “quirky” and identified her as “Oprah Winfrey’s spiritual adviser.” Much has been made of the fact that she once lived in a geodesic dome. More inexplicably, centrist and progressive pundits have been dismissing her ideas. Slate denigratedWilliamson’s speeches as “the ramblings of an inspirational speaker . . . devoid of meaning.”
Seeking is not my vibe, and I mistrust gurus. I was prepared to roll my eyes at least a little bit at Williamson. But a few minutes into conversation with this author of thirteen books, seven of them bestsellers, I realized the media portrayal of her was propagandistic nonsense. I had to wonder who the mainstream media has been describing: not the smart, well-spoken, righteously outraged woman sitting across from me.
Williamson, now seventy, was raised on left-wing values. Her father, a World War II veteran and an immigration lawyer, was a United Auto Workers organizer in the 1930s. When he was a child, she says his own father, a railroad worker, took him to hear Eugene Debs speak.
While for decades she has been a writer and speaker on spiritual matters, Williamson has recently begun taking a more political approach to our collective malaise, as she did in the 2019 book A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution and in her 2020 Democratic primary campaign.
Marianne Williamson speaks onstage at Guerrilla Tactics & Asymmetric Political Activism during the 2022 SXSW Conference and Festivals at Hilton Austin on March 14, 2022, in Austin, Texas. (Mike Jordan / Getty Images for SXSW)It’s a chilly spring day, but we sit outside because the cafe is closing. Williamson isn’t warmly dressed but graciously adapts to our situation, ordering a hot tea and sitting in the fading late afternoon sun.
She explains her shift from spiritual teacher to political candidate by describing the distress she’s witnessed in recent decades.
As someone people turn to when they’re in trouble — a clergyperson for the unchurched — she has seen up close how neoliberalism is “devastating people’s lives,” she says.
https://jacobin.com/2023/04/marianne-wi ... ing-people
18 Jul 2023 12:30 am
fake republicans will bury the USA to the point of bankruptcy with their BS preferential tax codes that create debt beyond reality.........
23 Jul 2023 3:01 pm
She brings up the Willow Project by way of example. In approving a massive, decades-long oil drilling project by ConocoPhillips in Northern Alaska, which will add 9.2 million metric tons of carbon to the earth every year, Biden broke a campaign promise to end new oil and gas drilling on public lands and waters.razoo » 18 Jul 2023, 12:30 am » wrote: ↑ fake republicans will bury the USA to the point of bankruptcy with their BS preferential tax codes that create debt beyond reality.........
He may also have risked electoral defeat, Williamson suggests. “The young people of America are not going to go to war in ’24 for the man who approved the Willow Project. And [establishment Democrats] think I’m not taking the fascist seriously,” she muses.
Again evoking the corporate Democrats, she asks, in a stern, mocking voice, “‘Does she not realize the fascists are at the door?’” She answers, in exasperation: “No, you are the ones who don’t realize fascism is at the door.”
“It’s not like it’s working, guys! That’s what kills me about the neoliberal establishment,” she continues with indignation. “They’re so self-congratulatory. What are they so freaking proud of? We are six inches from the cliff, in terms of the state of our democracy, the state of our environment, and the state of our economy.
And they’re so proud. They have dinners and congratulate each other, and call anyone not playing their game unserious.”
The reception of Williamson reminds me of how journalist Matt Taibbi described the pundits’ attitude in the early 2000s toward Dennis Kucinich, who had many ideas in common with Williamson, including the creation of a Department of Peace. In 2003, Taibbi wrote, “Welcome to the Dennis Kucinich paradox. The congressman is not serious precisely because he is serious.”
We’ve reached a similar paradox: it is precisely because Williamson is so serious that they must insist so loudly that she is unserious.“They’re not serious,” she insists of the respectable Democrats dismissing her campaign,
“About 68,000 people dying every year of lack of health care. They’re not serious about one in four Americans living in medical debt. They’re not serious about people rationing their insulin. They’re not serious about twelve million children living in poverty. But anyone not playing their game is unserious.”
https://jacobin.com/2023/04/marianne-wi ... ing-people
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