I’m a major fan girl when it comes to the Princess of Wales.
When the news was first announced that William would marry Kate Middleton, I remember thinking. “Oh that’s sweet. I mean, she’ll never have the magic of Diana but she’s a lovely girl.” I was right and I was wrong. Kate Middleton didn’t have the inherent charisma of William’s mother, but she achieved it nonetheless. She earned her magic, as a woman and as a public figure.
We watched her go from nice girl to extraordinary woman, not only in terms of her beauty but in terms of her activism as well. We saw her concern for people less fortunate than she, and her repeated projects and support for actual people and what they were living through. From her artistic projects during Covid to her obviously sincere work involving mental health and the needs of early childhood, more than once I found myself thinking. “Wow, she’s kind of amazing.”
I know she’s incredibly privileged, of course. But it still takes tremendous energy, intention, and goodwill to so consistently show up the way that woman does, plus raise three wonderful children at the same time! Add to it all the behind-the-scenes royal drama the rest of us can only imagine, and I have found myself among her biggest fans.
My sister was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 39 years old, and at the time she had three little girls. I have some personal experience with the layers of pain and sorrow that Princess Catherine and her family are now enduring. Her situation is just so deeply sad. I’m not quite sure why Americans feel such a connection to the British royal family, but I know many of us do. On one hand I’m glad that in America we don’t have a royal family, but I see their spiritual significance in some countries where they do. I can only imagine the tears being shed for Catherine in Great Britain today. I’ve shed a few for her myself.
May she be blessed and healed. May God’s hand be upon her, giving her comfort and strength at this difficult hour. May the spirit of God be upon her and upon all those who love her. May she be miraculously restored to the fullness of life.
Amen
A Big Lie of the corporatist status quo is that we just don’t have enough money for things (universal healthcare, education etc.) that are routinely granted to the citizens of every other advanced democracy. #Marianne2024
The New Aristocracy routinely overrides the will of the American people. #Marianne2024
“All men are created equal” is our national creed, and it should apply not only to Americans. In terms of the relationship between Palestinians and Israelis, throughout my campaign I’ve argued that America’s highest alliance should be with humanity itself. We should be equally and robustly committed to the safety, security and sovereignty of both peoples. The greatest way we can support peace between Israel and Palestine is to do our best to love them both.
Regarding the war in Gaza, as President I would not have given Netanyahu the leeway he has been given. I would have told him that while the U.S. fully supports Israel’s defeat of Hamas, not one dollar or weapon would be given by us until 1) I saw their strategy for how they planned to do it; 2) their plan for how to protect civilians; and 3) I knew their intention for what would happen the day the war ended. Unequivocal financial and weaponry support that has been given to Netanyahu since October 7 has been a very poor strategy on the part of the President, and leaves us with much less leverage in trying to influence Netanyahu’s behavior than we might otherwise have had.
The protests on college campuses going on now reflect for the most part a sincere and well-intentioned desire for a ceasefire in Gaza. But seeping into the pro-Palestinian movement of those appropriately decrying injustices toward an oppressed people is also a dangerous antisemitism – the opposite of cries for justice. All students should feel safe on campus.
Tonight is the Jewish Passover Seder and for many American Jews, there’s anxiety surrounding this night the likes of which we’ve never experienced. Many of us have long been advocates for the rights of Palestinians, but what is occurring now could distort the pursuit of justice. Support for Palestinian rights should not translate into support for Hamas. Nor should support for Palestinians translate into hatred toward the Jewish people, or a delegitimizing of the right of the state of Israel to exist. The moral as well as political basis for a 2-state solution is that both Jews and Palestinians have the right to a sovereign state.
Both peoples deserve peace, and both deserve love.
There are silent emergencies as well as screaming emergencies – constant emergencies like poverty, hunger, lack of healthcare, and hopelessness. Millions of people in this country unnecessarily live with all of them. #Marianne2024
This country will not fundamentally heal until we cut the cord with the malicious, inherently unjust system of trickle down economics that has hollowed out our middle class.
Watch my full talk from Eugene, Oregon in the Linktree.
We can’t have a thriving democracy if we don’t have a thriving middle class. A $50 trillion transfer of wealth from the bottom 90% of Americans over the last 50 years has completely collapsed our middle class, taking with it the health and well-being of our people and the health and well-being of our democracy as well.
Full video from my Eugene, Oregon talk can be found at the link in bio.
In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, “Politics should be sacred.”He didn’t mean it should be dogmatic or doctrinal, but that it should come from a deeper place in our hearts. It should express our reverence for nature, for each other, and for ourselves. Politics should be the art of collectively creating a more beautiful world.
Traveling around the country, I see people everywhere shaking their heads about our current politics and saying sadly, “This ain’t it.”
We need an alternative to a system stuck in the mire of what is essentially a controlled system – controlled by money, by media, and by political bosses. It is literally destroying our democracy. Yet we cannot do that through force, or even traditional political organizing. We can only do it through love.
I’ll be traveling to New York and Connecticut this week, then later on to Oregon, New Mexico, and perhaps Puerto Rico. I continue to use every opportunity I have to share a message that I know in my heart is the most heartfelt, therefore the most sustainable option for America’s future.
The agenda of our campaign is a loving one, from providing all Americans with health care, to its focus on waging peace, to paving the way for people to be educated, to caring for America’s children, and more. While that won’t be taking us to the White House, it is taking the American political conversation to a much higher place. The fact that we have garnered roughly 400,000 votes in the primary season already is a sign that people are listening. Please support the effort in whatever way you can; we are continuing to create a new possibility for our country and for the world.
Look at the pinned art above for where I’ll be this week, or on events page at Mariannne2024.com. Sign up on mailing list to find out where I’ll be speaking next!
Any dollar we spend on helping people thrive is a dollar that expands their creativity and productivity, thus expanding the economy. Setting people up to soar is good economics. #Marianne2024
At the end of the q and a section at my talk in Eugene, Oregon last night, a woman shared her story in a way that perfectly reflected the message of our campaign.
“I work in healthcare,” she said. “I’m taking care of my mother, who has Alzheimers’, and my two sons are trying to get the college loans you’ve talked about tonight.” Her face and demeanor revealed a sense of burden no hard working American should have to carry.
She is clearly a good woman, and the system has obviously failed her. In every other advanced democracy her mother’s healthcare as well as her son’s college tuition would be provided for. Americans have, quite simply, been trained to expect too little.
And the problem is so much worse, because there are millions of Americans just like her: working hard, trying to provide for their loved ones, and barely keeping their head above water. An ever shrinking portion of our population has easy access to either healthcare or higher education. It’s extraordinary how much we’ve moved our resources into the hands of a very few.
As I’ve said so often, the American people are not the problem. The problem is a political establishment so bought and sold by their corporate donors – in that woman’s’ case, big insurance companies, Big Pharma, and the educational-industrial complex – that our government does more to enable those who cause the problems than to advocate for those who suffer because of them.
That’s why I have been running for President.
Everyone in the room last night completely understood the message in all this. In the words of President Franklin Roosevelt, “A necessitous man is not a free man.” That woman, quite simply is not free. And we must not distract ourselves in the face of so much pain. We must correct our course.
One more standing ovation last night, one more room in which we’ve planted some seeds. My final words to the lovely woman who had shared her story was this, “I don’t even know you, but I wake up every morning and I think of you.”
I will not stop thinking of her, and I will not stop working for the day in which such an unnecessary and unjust burden has been removed from her shoulders.
And then we will all be free.
“It’s no sign of mental health to be well adjusted to a sick society.”
-Krishnamurti
Martin Luther King Jr. said “The desegregation of the American South is the externalization of the goal of the civil rights movement, but the ultimate goal is the establishment of the beloved community.”
We need external as well as internal change, a genuinely holistic and integrative model of politics going forward.
The 20th century was dominated by a different worldview then the 19th, and the 21st-century is dominated by another worldview still. The 20th century mindset was filtered through a very mechanistic perspective, while the 21st-century is far more holistic and whole person. We’re ready to look not only at symptoms but at root causes. we want to bring more of ourselves to bear upon problem-solving than simply the application of external remedies.
It’s now believed by scientists that a partnership between brain and heart is the true intelligence center of the body, and the same must be true of society if we are to repair our wounded selves. Again in the words of MLK Jr., “We need quantitative changes in our circumstances and qualitative shifts in our souls.”
Full video of my talk in Eugene, Oregon at the link in bio.
I spent last week in New Mexico, where I spoke on Thursday afternoon at the public library in Taos. Their Mayor, Pascal Maestas, was there.
I let people know at the beginning of my talks that I wasn’t there trying at this point to win the nomination. President Biden is clearly the presumptive Democratic nominee. But now, more than ever, it’s obvious that the message of our campaign is a needed ingredient in a November win: genuine, fundamental economic reform that gives people hope they can improve their material conditions.
At the end of my talk Mayor Maestas came up to me and said, “I’m going to vote for you. What you’re saying needs to be in the conversation.” He said he had recently been to a conference of Mayors where he couldn’t believe how no one was talking about the one thing they were all dealing with: the ravages of income inequality. Until we deal with this elephant in the room, this country will not repair itself. We’ve gone from “a government of the people, by the people, and for the people” to a government “of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations” – and we need to say so in whatever we can. From Medicare for All, to tuition free college and tech school, to a guaranteed living wage, to a Dept. of Peace, to a ceasefire, and more – we need a fundamental break with the past.
The New Mexico primary is June 4 and early voting has begun. Many thanks to the voters of Oregon and Kentucky and Idaho as well, who last week contributed to our nearly half a million primary votes at this point. Given the extraordinary measures to block our campaign, we’re very proud of that. Those numbers are tiny in terms of winning the nomination, they’re not tiny at all in case of a close general election in November. It’s the leverage with which I will be able to name and claim the issues that are most important to so many of us.
Thank you, Mayor Maestas. And thanks to everyone still yet to vote in the primaries. Every vote is a vote for a new America and a far more beautiful world. I know in my heart that we can get there.
The late Senator Paul Wellstone said he came from the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party. Hear hear! #Marianne2024
America will be everything it can be when more people are allowed to be everything that they can be, rather than chained by the shackles of economic and social constriction. #Marianne2024
Blessed to have U.S. Presidential candidate @mariannewilliamson with us for the past couple of days. As always, she tells it like it is, like no other. Another standing ovation, per usual 👏👏. To continue to share her messaging, she is continuing on campaign trail in states where she’s on the ballot. Her voice matters, and if we can collectively support her receiving 15% of vote in the Oregon, New Mexico, Idaho, Kentucky, or Wyoming, primaries in May, she would qualify for delegates at Democratic convention. I just registered to vote (for her) in Oregon 💥! #mariannewilliamson #2024presidentialcandidate #oregonprimary
Blessed to have U.S. Presidential candidate @mariannewilliamson with us for the past couple of days. As always, she tells it like it is, like no other. Another standing ovation, per usual 👏👏. To continue to share her messaging, she is continuing on campaign trail in states where she’s on the ballot. Her voice matters, and if we can collectively support her receiving 15% of vote in the Oregon, New Mexico, Idaho, Kentucky, or Wyoming, primaries in May, she would qualify for delegates at Democratic convention. I just registered to vote (for her) in Oregon 💥! #mariannewilliamson #2024presidentialcandidate #oregonprimary
Blessed to have U.S. Presidential candidate @mariannewilliamson with us for the past couple of days. As always, she tells it like it is, like no other. Another standing ovation, per usual 👏👏. To continue to share her messaging, she is continuing on campaign trail in states where she’s on the ballot. Her voice matters, and if we can collectively support her receiving 15% of vote in the Oregon, New Mexico, Idaho, Kentucky, or Wyoming, primaries in May, she would qualify for delegates at Democratic convention. I just registered to vote (for her) in Oregon 💥! #mariannewilliamson #2024presidentialcandidate #oregonprimary
Blessed to have U.S. Presidential candidate @mariannewilliamson with us for the past couple of days. As always, she tells it like it is, like no other. Another standing ovation, per usual 👏👏. To continue to share her messaging, she is continuing on campaign trail in states where she’s on the ballot. Her voice matters, and if we can collectively support her receiving 15% of vote in the Oregon, New Mexico, Idaho, Kentucky, or Wyoming, primaries in May, she would qualify for delegates at Democratic convention. I just registered to vote (for her) in Oregon 💥! #mariannewilliamson #2024presidentialcandidate #oregonprimary
Blessed to have U.S. Presidential candidate @mariannewilliamson with us for the past couple of days. As always, she tells it like it is, like no other. Another standing ovation, per usual 👏👏. To continue to share her messaging, she is continuing on campaign trail in states where she’s on the ballot. Her voice matters, and if we can collectively support her receiving 15% of vote in the Oregon, New Mexico, Idaho, Kentucky, or Wyoming, primaries in May, she would qualify for delegates at Democratic convention. I just registered to vote (for her) in Oregon 💥! #mariannewilliamson #2024presidentialcandidate #oregonprimary
This was my conversation with Sah D’Simone about his new book, “Spiritually, We.” Sah is a wonderful wisdom teacher. Great book, great conversation. 💙
We need a holistic, whole person perspective on global change: it needs to involve changes in our souls as well as changes in our politics. #Marianne2024
An American President needs to “just say NO” to Bibi Netanyahu. #Marianne2024
Join me in London on Wednesday, June 19 & Sunday, June 23.
More info at Alternatives.org.uk and at the link in bio.
