To the many thousands of people who have voted for me since the beginning of the primaries, please know how grateful I am. I will continue to honor the trust that you placed in me. We must be radical truth-tellers at a time when there is a rush to deny such truths.
At a time of decline and corruption, we must be willing to say so. At a time of intolerable human suffering, we must be willing to say so. At a time when faith in the possible and love for each other are our greatest powers, we must be willing to use those powers to the best of our ability to serve a greater good.
Super Tuesday was not the end of anything. We will carry on.
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I am grateful that as of right now, over 200,000 people have voted for me for President. Given the myriad efforts to block my candidacy, I take those votes very seriously. I’ll continue to honor the trust that they signify. They are a cry for fundamental change in America. Many people believe, as I do, that nothing less than a transformative vision will stave off potential disasters that stand before us.
While some argue that I should drop out of the race, graciously support President Biden and join the effort to joyfully defeat Trump in November, I know too much and have seen too much to agree to such a move. The President is not out campaigning. He is not truly out among the American people. He does not seem to register what people are actually going through. His handlers if anything are keeping real people away from him. And unspoken by most but seen by everyone, he does not display the physical or mental vitality necessary to take on Donald Trump.
That’s why I’ll remain in the race, looking forward to picking up even more votes in the states that have not yet weighed in.
Our staying in the race is an effort to increase the possibility that I will have a voice at the Democratic convention. In order to win in November, we must acknowledge that 39 per cent of Americans are skipping meals in order to pay their rent – and do something about it! We must acknowledge how difficult it is for millions of people to live on just one job, pay their medical bills, or even afford their rent – and do something about it! We must not simply brag about what we’ve accomplished already, when for the majority of Americans their lives are lived on the edge of disintegration and despair.
The system is in too many ways self-satisfied, exclusive, and closed in upon itself – but we must change that.
We need to save our democracy from Donald Trump, that is true. And in order to do that, we need to stand for a more powerful alternative to what he’s offering. I remain in the race in order to try.
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Today’s status quo is unsustainable. Things are going to break in one direction or the other: either toward greater democracy and justice, or toward dystopia and authoritarianism. #Marianne2024
Happy International Women’s Day, everyone! This video is from my talk at the Parliament of World Religions a few years ago…. #Marianne2024
The Democratic Party should do more than help people survive an unjust economic system; we should stand for ending the injustice.
“If you don’t do politics, politics will do you.”
I so appreciate the integrity and activism of @NadiaBAhmad at this important historic moment.
The American people are not the problem.
The problem is a sclerotic political system that acts like a lid, pushing down on the will of the people if it’s unaligned with the will of the corporate masters who run Washington. #Marianne2024
Richard Nixon initiated America’s War on Drugs in 1971. At the time he called it our “public enemy No. 1,” which he knew wasn’t true. We’ve spent a trillion dollars on it since that time, and clearly it hasn’t solved a problem but rather exacerbated it greatly.
Gabor Mate has remarked “It isn’t a war on drugs, but a war on drug addicts.”
In fact, it’s one of the main drivers of the prison-industrial complex. When I was in college there were 300,000 people incarcerated in the U.S.; today, there are over 2.3 million. And almost half of all federal prisoners are non-violent drug offenders.
This too is a racial issue. Blacks and whites in America use drugs at roughly the same rate, yet you never hear about police raiding white neighborhoods looking for drugs. Since Black people get on average 20% longer sentences for the same crime when committed by whites, the Drug War has contributed greatly to systemic racial injustice within the criminal justice system.
In short, we need to end America’s War on Drugs. For the $100B we spend on it each year, instead we could have a world class network of drug recovery options. As President I wouldn’t want a Drug Czar; I’d want a Recovery Czar. Ending the War on Drugs will also help undercut the power of the drug cartels by taking away their black market. And it would give us more bandwidth and resources with which to go after the drug we do need to stop: fentanyl.
Read – and share – my Drug Policy on the Issues page at Marianne2024.com
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The problem isn’t that we lack solutions. The problem is that people with solutions are over here, and people with power are over there. I want to be President to bring the two together. #Marianne2024
The real political dichotomy is not between Left or Right, but between the powerful and the powerless. #Marianne2024
It’s not enough to simply treat sickness. Definitely we need to do that, with universal healthcare via an improved Medicare for All. But we have to do more than that, too. We have to deal with the fact that the U.S. has a higher level of chronic illness than do advanced countries.
We need policies that proactively create a healthcare society. That’s what my Whole Health Plan does. Please check it out on the Issues page at Marianne2024.com or on Linktree.
The American people are not the problem; the problem is a sclerotic political system that sits on top of the will of the people like a lid that’s holding it down. #Marianne2024
There is no state in the country that hasn’t experienced the ravages of an old way of doing things. It’s time for the possibility of something new. #marianne2024
Whether it’s healthcare or any other dysfunctional institution in America, the problem isn’t that it’s complicated so much as it’s corrupt. #Marianne2024
Government’s attention to the common good is ever shrinking, as an orgy of privatization and deregulation has left the majority of Americans struggling to survive. #Marianne2024
Our government is held hostage by a corporate aristocracy. Time to break the chain that binds them. #Marianne2024
When it comes to the housing crisis, the gap between what is right and what is happening could not be starker. Real solutions do exist. #Marianne2024
We have to take care of our children; not only our own children, but children everywhere. And we need to take care of our home; not only our own home, but the home we all share-the earth itself. #Marianne2024
Democrats Abroad Town Hall with Marianne Williamson!
Join from around the world this Saturday (March 9th).
RSVP at the Link in Bio
See you tonight at the Microsoft Auditorium in the Seattle Public Library at 6:00pm!
1000 4th Avenue. Seattle, WA
We need to have deep conversations about changing the trajectory of our country.
The biggest risk for those of us who do not want Trump in the White House is not that people will vote for Trump. The biggest risk is that if we do not offer people something fundamentally better-something that truly gives them hope for their own lives- then they will simply stay home and not vote. People have been trained to expect too little. #Marianne2024
“They are running the same plays, and that simply will not win.” Thank you, Jalen Blocker.
Join me for an online panel on women, politics & peace this Friday, March 8.
More info at https://www.globalcompassioncoalition.org/events/
