Democratic Candidate Marianne Williamson: No one entrenched in the status quo perspective is going to lead us out of the miasma we are in

No one entrenched in the status quo perspective is going to lead us out of the miasma we are in

https://vtdigger.org/2019/03/24/bernie-sanders-spiritual-supporter-turns-2020-challenger/
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Williamson’s progressive positions mirror those of the Vermont U.S. senator, who she endorsed in his first White House bid. Her commitment to Sanders’ campaign generated headlines like “Hollywood’s Favorite New Age Guru Backs Bernie Sanders for President.”

“I don’t think the American people are going to go with an establishment voice,” Williamson said at the time in a YouTube video. “No one who is entrenched within the perspective of the status quo is going to lead us out of the miasma that we are in now.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sjdyXeFCkk

Williamson went on to appear with Sanders at a 2017 empowerment conference in Washington, D.C.

Now she is turning heads by entering the 2020 race on her own.

Williamson hasn’t changed her mind about the Vermont independent — although she does tell audiences, “I believe in capitalism with a conscience.”

“I still love Bernie,” she says, “but I feel moved to run.”

Specifically, Williamson wants to morph Sanders’ call for “revolution” into her own campaign motto, “Join the Evolution.”

“Whether you are healing a life, or healing a nation, the same spiritual and moral and psychological principles prevail,” she recently told an audience in the southwestern New Hampshire town of Henniker. “I don’t want to go to Washington to fight for you, I want to go to Washington and create with you.”
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Likewise, while Sanders touts raising nearly $6 million in his campaign’s first 24 hours, Williamson is trying to sign up 65,000 individual donors so she can qualify to appear in Democratic debates. Almost halfway there, she’s focusing her efforts in the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire and fellow early-bird voting enclaves of Iowa, Nevada and South Carolina.
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She is promoting her platform — which also calls for federal departments of peace and youth — on her website, in press such as the recent Washington Post Magazine cover story “Marianne Williamson Wants to Be Your Healer in Chief” and her coming book “A Politics of Love.”

“You can’t just tinker with the machine,” Williamson told her New Hampshire audience. “We have to heal this country. We have to harness love for political purposes.”
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