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Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

This isn’t governance. It’s cruelty in costume.

ICE doesn't need expansion. It needs dismantling.

What’s being built isn’t safety. It’s a machine for dehumanization.

They want you numb. Don't give them that.

They want you hateful. Don’t feed them that either.

Keep your empathy sharp.

Keep your outrage holy.

Love is not soft. It is a line in the sand.

And we’re drawing it now.

roscoe forrest's avatar

what an excellent article.Thank-you MW !!

Tim McGowan's avatar

Outstanding... what you came in for.

Marianne Williamson's avatar

Thank you for all your encouragement, Tim x

Janice Enzone's avatar

Thank you for such clarity. You are amazing. I voted for you too. Sure wish you had won.

Jim Holbein's avatar

I agree with your moving description of our current situation. It is going to get worse before it gets better. To prepare for the opportunity in a few months or even a few years to truly influence and change people's minds through love, please articulate a vision of positive outcomes for our future. You have mentioned that we need such a vision and I know the light that burns bright within your soul is guiding you to articulate that with us and for us. We the People are the bright light that will motivate a lasting change from this existential darkness. We need to articulate a vision, with a real plan, motivated by our love for each other and this beautiful world, in order to offer a real alternative to the allegiance to greed and hate that the Trump Republican conservative team is pursuing.

Judi Lindsey's avatar

You have once again nailed it! Now if every human being could read this and take it to heart. We'll do our best to spread the Truth. And right the wrong wherever we encounter it.

Patti Zachery's avatar

Maybe this "ugly horrible bill" that just got signed is what was needed as the final straw to get people's attention and wake up. There are a lot of poor republicans who maybe thought that only the health care of democrats was going to be cut and they had no idea it included them. Now, maybe once this gets set into motion, there will be enough people - on both sides - to call for impeachment proceedings to get this person out of office so we can begin building a new model of government that serves the best interest of all our citizens and not just the ones with money.

Perla Lovejoy's avatar

words fail, prayers in my heart and on my mind. Creator, help us be patient for the changes that must come, help us be kind even when we have fear and feel such rage and despair. Keep us safe in the storm. Amen.

Roni Windle's avatar

Thank you, ma'am. I feel like my personal empathy has been slipping a tad. But that opens a door, which you remind me I must close. There is such bellicose anger, rage, hatred. And there's plenty to be enraged about. I'll keep doing what strengthens my spirit. Neither will I blindly forgive the perpetrators of the atrocities aimed at destroying our constitutional republic. I will be a spiritual warrior.

Annie's avatar

Marianne, thank you so very much for your ever strong, wise and loving voice. I am not and shall not be wavering in my commitment to continue "building that beautiful world we know in our hearts is possible". (Charles Eisenstein)

Still, I read and listen to your every offering because your words of truth and confident spirit never fail to encourage me on. Many Blessings❣️🙏🏼

Bill Balkus's avatar

Bravo!. … Very well written Marianne … The thing that scares me the most is … will enough people stay awake long enough to push back hard when it’s time to vote … and … will Trump use the Post Office or ICE or State Election Boards to keep Democrats and Independents from voting in opposition to his Administration ???

Cathy's avatar

Everything you write is True on a deep level (as it feels to me). I am on a mission every day to help however I am able.

But a Congressperson who does not even read a bill they are required to vote on - when did that become okay? For eff’s sake, that is literally their job! That these tossers can admit they didn’t read the bill and not feel ashamed- geeze, we have lost the plot. That should be grounds for them to be dismissed. I Know there is no means set up to “dismiss” a member of congress for not doing their job - but there SHOULD be.

Ed Nuhfer's avatar

For decades, bills have been mostly written by lobbying consultants and staff. The CONgress who uses this practice knows no more about the bill than a student who buys a term paper from a paper mill knows what's in the paper.

But to say that "I didn't know" regarding their financing an ICE to serve as a plutocrats' desired police force for controlling American citizens in their homes and communities because the regular Army is forbidden to do that by our Constitution, or to remove access to health care from the most vulnerable is a BALD-FACED LIE! Do not buy into it from a representative of either of this two-headed cartel party who tries to now hide from what they did in an informed, premeditated action.

Rebecca Suzanne's avatar

It is an inside job in many was, Marianne! It is the internal love and strength inside each of us. It is the "still small voice," within each of us.

Bette's avatar

I love the bold print!

Lynn Kay's avatar

Thank you for putting our thoughts into words and a call to action. It will certainly take each one of us… Think of how many innocent citizens are locked up right now because potus2 says so..This is against everything this country stands for.. “Home of the free”? This is

MAGA make America great again! Hopefully people that voted for him will RISE UP!!

NOW!! The daily change in tariffs is his attempt to Distract us from the Destruction going on and the quota to lock people up!!

It’s immoral and illegal and no due process!!

The state department was gutted and career u.s. civil servants fired… on Rubios watch..

Thank you Marianne…

Mario A Leblanc's avatar

THE TRUTH WILL SET US FREE!

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Mario A Leblanc's avatar

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