Progressive Perspectives on
Marianne Williamson’s Presidential Run:
“There’s No Downside to Her Doing This”
Marianne Williamson Begins 2024 Challenge to Biden – Will Weissert (AP News, March 4, 2023).
Marianne Williamson: Why I’m Running for President – Breaking Points (March 5, 2023).
On the Run with Marianne Williamson – Jonathan Capehart (MSNBC, March 5, 2023).
“I See This Campaign as Challenging a System”: Marianne Williamson – Jon Karl (This Week, March 5, 2023).
Big News From Marianne Williamson – Sharon Kyle and Dick Price (LA Progressive, March 5, 2023).
Marianne Williamson Says 2024 Bid Is Not a Challenge to Biden But to a System – Edward Helmore (The Guardian, March 6, 2023).
Marianne Williamson Was “So Sad to See” Karine Jean-Pierre Joke About Her Candidacy – Isabella Murray (ABC News, March 7, 2023).
Bernie Sanders Says Marianne Williamson Will Run a “Strong Campaign” and Raise “Very Important Issues” in 2024 – Bryan Metzger (Business Insider, March 8, 2023).
See also: Marianne 2024 Official Site | About | Issues | News | Events | Blog | Donate
See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Marianne 2024
• Marianne Williamson: “We Must Challenge the Entire System”
• Progressive Perspectives on the U.S. Midterm Election Results
• Marianne Williamson on the Current Condition of the U.S.
• An Essential Read Ahead of the Midterms
• Marianne Williamson’s Politics of Love: The Rich Roll Interview
• Celebrating Tuesday’s Progressive Wins in the Midst of the Ongoing “War for the Future of the Democratic Party”
• Now Here’s a Voice I’d Like to Hear Regularly on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows
• A Deeper Perspective on What’s Really Attacking American Democracy
• Marianne Williamson on the Tenth Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street
• Cultivating Peace
• “Two of the Most Dedicated and Enlightened Heroes of Present Day America”
• Progressive Perspectives on the 2020 U.S. Election Results
• “As Much the Sounding of An Alarm As a Time for Self-Congratulations”
• We Cannot Allow a Biden Win to Mean a Return to “Brunch Liberalism”
• Marianne Williamson on America’s “Cults of Madness”
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – September 4, 2020
• “We Have an Emergency On Our Hands”: Marianne Williamson On the “Freefall” of American Democracy
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – June 2, 2020
For The Wild Reed’s coverage of Marianne Williamson’s 2020 presidential campaign, see the following chronologically-ordered posts:
• Talkin’ ’Bout An Evolution: Marianne Williamson’s Presidential Bid
• Why Marianne Williamson Is a Serious and Credible Presidential Candidate
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – April 24, 2019
• Marianne Williamson: Reaching for Higher Ground
• “A Lefty With Soul”: Why Presidential Candidate Marianne Williamson Deserves Some Serious Attention
• Sometimes You Just Have to Take Matters Into Your Own Hands
• Marianne Williamson Plans on Sharing Some “Big Truths” on Tonight's Debate Stage
• Friar André Maria: Quote of the Day – June 28, 2019
• Presidential Candidate Marianne Williamson: “We’re Living at a Critical Moment in Our Democracy”
• Caitlin Johnstone: “Status Quo Politicians Are Infinitely ‘Weirder’ Than Marianne Williamson”
• Marianne Williamson On What It Will Take to Defeat Donald Trump
• “This Woman Is Going to Win the Nomination”: Matt Taibbi on Marianne Williamson in Iowa
• Something to Think About (and Embody!)
• The Relevance and Vitality of Marianne Williamson’s 2020 Presidential Campaign
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – November 4, 2019
• Michael Goldstein: Quote of the Day – November 11, 2019
• Marianne Williamson: “Anything That Will Help People Thrive, I’m Interested In”
• Marianne Williamson and the Power of Politicized Love
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – December 14, 2019
• Marianne Williamson: “I Am Not Suspending My Candidacy”
• Marianne Williamson on New Day with Christi Paul – 01/04/20
• “A Beautiful Message, So Full of Greatness”
• A Thank You Letter to Marianne Williamson
• “I Learned So Much From the Experience”: Marianne Williamson on Her Presidential Bid
• Deep Gratitude
Christina Cauterucci offered this queer and progressive perspective on MW's candidacy:
ReplyDeletehttps://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/02/marianne-williamson-running-for-president-again.html
Percy, "Zinya"'s comment on the Slate website says it well for me:
ReplyDeleteThis is a curious headline ["Could Everyone Chill Out About Marianne Williamson This Time?"] because it doesn't seem that author Christina Cauterucci is chilling out at all. You'd think calling on readers to "chill out about" a candidate would mean "take them in stride" or "don't get overworked or angry about them" and even "just give them a listen."
But the body of this column, as I read it, is: "What possesses Marianne Williamson to think she belongs in this race? And why doesn't she just butt out? She's a flake." Am I misreading here to come away with that take? Cuz it's certainly not chilling out in my book. (And who says Presidential races "do not need comic relief"? Also not very chill. Boy, I needed Trevor Noah, and Jon Stewart before him, both big time to get through election years - well okay any years, politically - with some sanity in tact.)
But I think Cauterucci misgauges Marianne by quite a bit. I don't think she's comic relief, intentionally or otherwise. And I don't think she's in this just to sell books or self-promotion. She was only in two debates but each time she got interrupted by applause - nine times total.
Why not? Because her "platform" is too spot-on and coherent to be so insincere as is suggested here. She's not a Donald Trump from what I can tell. And I didn't vote for her or find her to even be expecting to be a contender but to try to get the stage to do her own "speak truth to power" and seek to knock some reality into the Democratic Party. Such as:
• Imho (as I often chime in about here), she puts the highest most urgency priority in the right (albeit ignored) place: Until public funding via constitutional amendment takes the corruption of private money and quid pro quo out of politics, nothing else gets very far if it even makes it out of the gate. That's truth and while a couple of other Democratic candidates alluded to sharing that view, notably both Bernie and Biden (and Gillibrand and Bennet), which can't be coincidence as to how that very priority made it into the final 2020 Democratic Party platform. I don't think Marianne directly influenced that inclusion but it didn't hurt that she voiced emphatically that this priority is the sine qua non.
• Her stances on Big Pharma and on guns and reparations were all coherently reasoned.
And I believe in electing Biden, the bulk of Americans made a choice that was in line with what Marianne preached - as Biden came across most readily of speaking from a place of love - as unpolitical as that sounds and it's easy to mock Marianne for but it's become increasingly common since 2019 to conceptualize love as a "platform."