To an Englishman watching with interest, your words and spirit are a beacon of hope in a world diseased by the failures (for the majority) and distortions of the last half century's policies. I wish all strength and courage to your cause.
Absolutely no one has, is, will speak so plainly about the cultural deterioration and injury that has befallen America as you do, Marianne. I have friends who think you should not be taken seriously as a candidate, and their stated reasons are never backed up by logic or knowledge. That is something I will work hard to change. One “trick” I am pulling on them is to copy the text of your blog and send it to them with no identification and simply ask them if they agree your comments make sense and should be how a viable candidate should profile our present national homeostasis. They always agree with every sentence, no exception. When I tell them you are the author, their jaw drops. Then I challenge them to find statements and positions from other possible candidates that reach as deeply and broadly as yours to justify their possible support. I know I will not see any reply to that challenge.
I agree 100% with all you’ve so eloquently summed up in your “Notes from the Road.” I believe most Americans are willing and ready to see the truths we need to face to turn things around. Along with you, I believe the American people are not the problem: most Americans WANT gun control (why was the assault weapon ban allowed to expire?), most Americans WANT universal healthcare, WANT economic and racial justice, etc., etc. etc. and so much more. But how is it that our elected officials in Washington do not enact laws that reflect what the majority of Americans want, need and deserve? Yes, we all have to be engaged citizens, speak truth to power, vote, protest, etc. But who is listening? Who really cares? So, what do those of us - the majority - who choose the path towards sustainability and repair DO? It feels like a David vs. Goliath battle.
Thank you for your courage and vision and the light you shine - all the way to the White House! 💕
I'm ready to shine some light of truth on the Department of Human Services. It is not a model that assists people to move from survive to thrive but is a model that creates dependency, keeping people in survival mode because it is driven by numbers and is funded based on the numbers. It was created that way back during the Great Depression when people were in bread lines that had never been seen in our country before, and good hearted people said, "We have to do something" - and they developed programs and services to assist people during hard times. They went to the funding agencies for the money to provide these programs and services and were told there needs to be proof of need - thus began the documentation based on numbers. That model has not changed, 93 years later. Would a 1930's model car run on our highways and freeways today? The answer is no, it would not, and yet we have let a 1930's model operating system pull people into it for 93 years without creating any exit plan for people to move out of the system into self sufficiency. We cannot keep doing this because the system is already overloaded and overwhelmed and keeps producing more dependency that keeps people in survival mode. If you want to see an example of how this system operates, check out a documentary on Netflix called, "The Trial of Gabriel Fernandez". This is the norm more than it is an exception. We need an independent evaluation process of our government agencies by people who have no investment in the outcome if we are ever going to have a government FOR the people.
Thank you, Patti: This is an excellent and concise analysis of where DHHS has gone off track...I hope you plan to stick around and help aright things. I like your idea for oversight and evaluation.
Perhaps after her election, Marianne will see to it that an independent commission of citizens is appointed for the oversight of DHHS and all other departments of government.
“It is the TRUTH that shines a Blinding Light on what has gone wrong - and a Visionary Light upon a road of Sustainability and Repair that lies before us - If We So Choose.
Whatever decision we make will determine - THE FATE OF OUR COUNTRY - And it is definitely - TIME TO DECIDE!” … THANK YOU … GREAT WRITTING!
I had a dream in the midst of a thunder and lightning storm more than thirty years ago. I was Speaking in a voice that was Thunder Perfect, decades before I discovered Thunder Perfect in the Nag Hammadi Scriptures. In the dream, I had come to this planet from another star system, using Time-Trees to traverse time/space. I did not travel alone, but with a strong companion. Her name was Miriamne the Firewalker. Like our current Firewalker, Marianne (only a few letters bring this into clearer focus) passed through fire unscathed, and had the ability to transform things so that arrangements were quite different as she moved through old, previously rigid institutions and brought a cleansing fire--not a destroying fire, but a purifying fire everywhere...so be it.
Your last paragraph is inspirational. Thank you. I hope you are right about everything. I am irish and so maybe I don't get it..but to me the average American is ignorant..vulgar I have no idea about that. There is no spirit to question. The rules are followed. There's no looking to other countries for comparison. How do Americans not support health care for all? That's just one thing I simply can't understand. If you become unemployed ..good luck finding a way through the morass to get support. Once again. Marianne thank you for all you do
At some point Marianne needs to get explicit that Biden and his ilk are the real problem. For 50 years he's been entrenched in DC as a neoconservative on foreign wars and a neoliberal on economics. If she's not going to challenge the Democratic establishment then why bother running at all?
I think her approach of calling out the system itself is correct. Don’t worry, I bet she’ll be calling out Biden left and right once he’s in the race and actually trying to campaign on his “accomplishments”
Which is why I'm withholding my enthusiasm for now. I am on board with her philosophy and her diagnosis of America's ills. I want to see if she has the courage to confront the decay at the heart of the Democratic elite, a cancer perfectly embodied in Biden.
I hope she can go deeper into the scientific fraud and horrible things that covid exposed. I remember years ago, someone at one of Marianne's live events asked her to look into vaccine injury - this was before covid. She said some reasonable things about vaccination, and of course was attacked by the media machine for doing so. I have a feeling she may believe the narrative that says even tho the covid vaccine is not perfect, people take risks in times of crisis, when doing so will help the greater good.
But the reality is the covid vaccine is much worse than not perfect, the risks are way, way more than have been disclosed, and they never - ever - could have stopped transmission anyway, they did much more harm than good.
I'm excited that Robert F Kennedy Jr announced a run for president. He does understand how dangerous it is when science, academia, media, etc, are completely captured, and he understands that - even if vaccines in theory are great ideas - the current state of the science leaves a huge gap between what we are told the science says and what it actually says. RFK, Jr only got into vaccines because mothers were telling him that if he's concerned about mercury in fish, there is more mercury in vaccines (now that's replaced with aluminum, almost as bad). A mother, who was awarded funds in vaccine court, found RFK, Jrs house, went there with an 18 inch pile of studies, and said she wouldn't leave til he read them. He did. And then saw the difference between what we're told and what actually is.
But Marianne won't be supported by the establishment anyway. (Then again, maybe - if she doesn't go much against the narrative of covid, or the autoritarian power grab of the WHO, done in the name of protection and sustainability), the establishment may support her - they despise RFK, Jr. Because he speaks truth about what they most want to lie about.
I hope she does say more about these things. Truth, and more and more people, sadly some who learned the hard way by being injured - are understanding how corrupt the vaccine program and WHO are. (Again, this is not a criticism of safe vaccines that protect people in an honest healthcare system. I absolutely agree it's everyone's responsibility to take a safe vaccine if it's the only way to stop a serious disease from spreading and making a lot of people sick. But the reality is there are no vaccines adequately tested for safety, sometimes it's proclaimed that vaccination is the only way to get past something when that is not true - it definitely was never true for covid, and there is no informed consent, and there is no honest healthcare system).
Thank you, Marianne! Will you please also address America’s role in the world? We should be working for peace in Ukraine and Russia, not helping to escalate the war through providing massive weapons. We should be finding a way to live with China instead of picking a fight with them. There are lots of people in the world, most of them are not Americans. We need to learn to live with everyone on this planet, and not insist that we be the big dog all the time.
Refreshing to read such words from a real political candidate. Broken system indeed. To me the most salient point - we must rise up. Otherwise this campaign will only get snickers from corporate media. We do this together. Not sure how yet...
Never have I been so disappointed in a public figure that I once admired as I have become in you Marianne. How can you be preaching hatred, fear and division and be the author of 'A Return to Love' in which the thesis is fear as
False
Evidence
Appearing
Real
Yet you say in this essay that Trump and MAGA are a threat to democracy, that people should fear them, etc all the while stirring further division. It appears that you do not practice what you preach. Please take a good look at yourself. There is no us and them.
I hear you .. Trump is nowhere near the boogeyman evil the media make him out to be. I still don't like him, I don't trust him, I don;t think he is a humble servant of the people with only good in his heart that I could get behind as a great leader - but so many in power are selfish and corrupt, and Trump is more the lesser evil in that regard. He is outside the entrenched powerful system, and for that reason they are determined to make sure we all are afraid of him, hate him, and will do anything to take him down.
It is manufactured division. The media is the biggest threat to democracy.
To an Englishman watching with interest, your words and spirit are a beacon of hope in a world diseased by the failures (for the majority) and distortions of the last half century's policies. I wish all strength and courage to your cause.
Absolutely no one has, is, will speak so plainly about the cultural deterioration and injury that has befallen America as you do, Marianne. I have friends who think you should not be taken seriously as a candidate, and their stated reasons are never backed up by logic or knowledge. That is something I will work hard to change. One “trick” I am pulling on them is to copy the text of your blog and send it to them with no identification and simply ask them if they agree your comments make sense and should be how a viable candidate should profile our present national homeostasis. They always agree with every sentence, no exception. When I tell them you are the author, their jaw drops. Then I challenge them to find statements and positions from other possible candidates that reach as deeply and broadly as yours to justify their possible support. I know I will not see any reply to that challenge.
A brilliant strategy -- point, counterpoint. I like that very much. Thank you, Kent.
https://kitparsons.substack.com/p/why-marianne-williamson-should-be
I agree 100% with all you’ve so eloquently summed up in your “Notes from the Road.” I believe most Americans are willing and ready to see the truths we need to face to turn things around. Along with you, I believe the American people are not the problem: most Americans WANT gun control (why was the assault weapon ban allowed to expire?), most Americans WANT universal healthcare, WANT economic and racial justice, etc., etc. etc. and so much more. But how is it that our elected officials in Washington do not enact laws that reflect what the majority of Americans want, need and deserve? Yes, we all have to be engaged citizens, speak truth to power, vote, protest, etc. But who is listening? Who really cares? So, what do those of us - the majority - who choose the path towards sustainability and repair DO? It feels like a David vs. Goliath battle.
Thank you for your courage and vision and the light you shine - all the way to the White House! 💕
The challenge is the system, which is designed to do the bidding of the rich and powerful, the people are merely pawns in the game.
Indeed, so course-correction is necessary!
We all must become David now if we truly care about existence and a desire for harmony and joy on our planet.
Activist-In-Chief 🕊️ #Marianne2024
I'm ready to shine some light of truth on the Department of Human Services. It is not a model that assists people to move from survive to thrive but is a model that creates dependency, keeping people in survival mode because it is driven by numbers and is funded based on the numbers. It was created that way back during the Great Depression when people were in bread lines that had never been seen in our country before, and good hearted people said, "We have to do something" - and they developed programs and services to assist people during hard times. They went to the funding agencies for the money to provide these programs and services and were told there needs to be proof of need - thus began the documentation based on numbers. That model has not changed, 93 years later. Would a 1930's model car run on our highways and freeways today? The answer is no, it would not, and yet we have let a 1930's model operating system pull people into it for 93 years without creating any exit plan for people to move out of the system into self sufficiency. We cannot keep doing this because the system is already overloaded and overwhelmed and keeps producing more dependency that keeps people in survival mode. If you want to see an example of how this system operates, check out a documentary on Netflix called, "The Trial of Gabriel Fernandez". This is the norm more than it is an exception. We need an independent evaluation process of our government agencies by people who have no investment in the outcome if we are ever going to have a government FOR the people.
Thank you, Patti: This is an excellent and concise analysis of where DHHS has gone off track...I hope you plan to stick around and help aright things. I like your idea for oversight and evaluation.
Perhaps after her election, Marianne will see to it that an independent commission of citizens is appointed for the oversight of DHHS and all other departments of government.
May your words resonate in the hearts of all of us, and let us turn toward the light and actually do the right thing.
“It is the TRUTH that shines a Blinding Light on what has gone wrong - and a Visionary Light upon a road of Sustainability and Repair that lies before us - If We So Choose.
Whatever decision we make will determine - THE FATE OF OUR COUNTRY - And it is definitely - TIME TO DECIDE!” … THANK YOU … GREAT WRITTING!
Marianne can save America. She can save the world. God bless Marianne.
I had a dream in the midst of a thunder and lightning storm more than thirty years ago. I was Speaking in a voice that was Thunder Perfect, decades before I discovered Thunder Perfect in the Nag Hammadi Scriptures. In the dream, I had come to this planet from another star system, using Time-Trees to traverse time/space. I did not travel alone, but with a strong companion. Her name was Miriamne the Firewalker. Like our current Firewalker, Marianne (only a few letters bring this into clearer focus) passed through fire unscathed, and had the ability to transform things so that arrangements were quite different as she moved through old, previously rigid institutions and brought a cleansing fire--not a destroying fire, but a purifying fire everywhere...so be it.
Love this Marcia. Thank you for sharing!
Your last paragraph is inspirational. Thank you. I hope you are right about everything. I am irish and so maybe I don't get it..but to me the average American is ignorant..vulgar I have no idea about that. There is no spirit to question. The rules are followed. There's no looking to other countries for comparison. How do Americans not support health care for all? That's just one thing I simply can't understand. If you become unemployed ..good luck finding a way through the morass to get support. Once again. Marianne thank you for all you do
At some point Marianne needs to get explicit that Biden and his ilk are the real problem. For 50 years he's been entrenched in DC as a neoconservative on foreign wars and a neoliberal on economics. If she's not going to challenge the Democratic establishment then why bother running at all?
I think her approach of calling out the system itself is correct. Don’t worry, I bet she’ll be calling out Biden left and right once he’s in the race and actually trying to campaign on his “accomplishments”
Which is why I'm withholding my enthusiasm for now. I am on board with her philosophy and her diagnosis of America's ills. I want to see if she has the courage to confront the decay at the heart of the Democratic elite, a cancer perfectly embodied in Biden.
Until she takes that step I will remain leery.
Do you support health freedom? Will you prohibit all vaccine mandates? Will you get us out of the corrupt World Health Organization?
I hope she can go deeper into the scientific fraud and horrible things that covid exposed. I remember years ago, someone at one of Marianne's live events asked her to look into vaccine injury - this was before covid. She said some reasonable things about vaccination, and of course was attacked by the media machine for doing so. I have a feeling she may believe the narrative that says even tho the covid vaccine is not perfect, people take risks in times of crisis, when doing so will help the greater good.
But the reality is the covid vaccine is much worse than not perfect, the risks are way, way more than have been disclosed, and they never - ever - could have stopped transmission anyway, they did much more harm than good.
I'm excited that Robert F Kennedy Jr announced a run for president. He does understand how dangerous it is when science, academia, media, etc, are completely captured, and he understands that - even if vaccines in theory are great ideas - the current state of the science leaves a huge gap between what we are told the science says and what it actually says. RFK, Jr only got into vaccines because mothers were telling him that if he's concerned about mercury in fish, there is more mercury in vaccines (now that's replaced with aluminum, almost as bad). A mother, who was awarded funds in vaccine court, found RFK, Jrs house, went there with an 18 inch pile of studies, and said she wouldn't leave til he read them. He did. And then saw the difference between what we're told and what actually is.
These are dangerous issues to go near. No one can be supported by the establishment who speaks honestly about how vaccine studies really are Turtles All The Way Down ( https://www.amazon.com/Turtles-All-Way-Down-Vaccine/dp/9655981045 ).
But Marianne won't be supported by the establishment anyway. (Then again, maybe - if she doesn't go much against the narrative of covid, or the autoritarian power grab of the WHO, done in the name of protection and sustainability), the establishment may support her - they despise RFK, Jr. Because he speaks truth about what they most want to lie about.
I hope she does say more about these things. Truth, and more and more people, sadly some who learned the hard way by being injured - are understanding how corrupt the vaccine program and WHO are. (Again, this is not a criticism of safe vaccines that protect people in an honest healthcare system. I absolutely agree it's everyone's responsibility to take a safe vaccine if it's the only way to stop a serious disease from spreading and making a lot of people sick. But the reality is there are no vaccines adequately tested for safety, sometimes it's proclaimed that vaccination is the only way to get past something when that is not true - it definitely was never true for covid, and there is no informed consent, and there is no honest healthcare system).
These truths need to be brought to light.
Thank you, Marianne! Will you please also address America’s role in the world? We should be working for peace in Ukraine and Russia, not helping to escalate the war through providing massive weapons. We should be finding a way to live with China instead of picking a fight with them. There are lots of people in the world, most of them are not Americans. We need to learn to live with everyone on this planet, and not insist that we be the big dog all the time.
Refreshing to read such words from a real political candidate. Broken system indeed. To me the most salient point - we must rise up. Otherwise this campaign will only get snickers from corporate media. We do this together. Not sure how yet...
My recent comments on American gun culture are at https://kentcomfort.substack.com/p/gun-culture
Never have I been so disappointed in a public figure that I once admired as I have become in you Marianne. How can you be preaching hatred, fear and division and be the author of 'A Return to Love' in which the thesis is fear as
False
Evidence
Appearing
Real
Yet you say in this essay that Trump and MAGA are a threat to democracy, that people should fear them, etc all the while stirring further division. It appears that you do not practice what you preach. Please take a good look at yourself. There is no us and them.
I hear you .. Trump is nowhere near the boogeyman evil the media make him out to be. I still don't like him, I don't trust him, I don;t think he is a humble servant of the people with only good in his heart that I could get behind as a great leader - but so many in power are selfish and corrupt, and Trump is more the lesser evil in that regard. He is outside the entrenched powerful system, and for that reason they are determined to make sure we all are afraid of him, hate him, and will do anything to take him down.
It is manufactured division. The media is the biggest threat to democracy.