"Marianne Williamson warned her fellow 2020 Democratic presidential candidates to stop focusing on the details of policies and put more effort into defeating the “dark psychic force” that is President Trump.
“This is part of the dark underbelly of American society, the racism, the bigotry, and the entire conversation that we’re having here tonight. If you think any of this wonkiness is going to deal with this dark psychic force of the collectivized hatred that this president is bringing up in this country, then I’m afraid that the Democrats are going to see some very dark days,” she said in the second Democratic debate Tuesday night.
Williamson’s remark came as she was commenting on the water crisis in Flint, Michigan." Washington Examiner
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I love this woman.
SWMBO commented that she appears to have been brought forward by the Hollywood branch of the Democratic Party, You know, the Robert De Niro wing.
She is a New Age other worldly motivational speaker and writer and she is quite good looking as well. What more could you ask for in a Democratic Party candidate for president?
Well, there are the two arm waving socialist zealots, Bernie and Warren. Boring, Neither of them seems to have any grasp of classical economics. You know, the supply and demand stuff that we all took courses about as undergraduates.
The rest are just meat still on the hoof.
I hope the Democrats keep her in the game for some time. I enjoy looking at her.
Tonight should be even more fun. More on this tomorrow. pl
The point she is making was made (more rationally and with less chanting) by Drew Westen in his book The Political Brain (https://www.amazon.com/Political-Brain-Emotion-Deciding-Nation/dp/1586485733).
Politics is visceral and emotional; Warren's (in particular) White Papers are unlikely to work at that level or persuade any voters.
Further, as Mike Tyson used to say, "Everyone has a plan . . . until they get punched in the mouth." Some "one over the world" plan, not made in concert with the people who have to execute it, just invites "sharpshooting."
As Polonius said in Hamlet, "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."
Posted by: John Minehan | 02 August 2019 at 07:27 AM
Mrs. Obama is a very good health care lawyer, who has better options than politics.
Posted by: John Minehan | 02 August 2019 at 07:35 AM
"For the first time in my adult life I'm proud of my country"
I don't take that quote the same way others do.
I always figured what she meant was that her husband's election demonstrated to her that a lot of people, really, really believe in this country, something more than fireworks on July 4th.
Only one person came to that realization by having her husband elected as our first Black President. But a lot of people have had that realization in simpler ways, leading American Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen or Marines in combat, for example.
Sometimes, we just need to see something that reminds us . . . .
Posted by: John Minehan | 02 August 2019 at 07:46 AM
Open the gate, close the gate. A rural practice.
< / I > remove spaces to close italics
Posted by: SAC Brat | 02 August 2019 at 08:37 PM
Sir,
If I remember correctly you supported/voted for Bernie in ‘16,why the change if heart? His economics sure haven’t changed.
Posted by: Serge | 02 August 2019 at 10:16 PM
Serge
That is true. In the maelstrom of the democratic primary he and his wife appealed to us as essentially decent people. I detested Clinton. His commitment to what amounts to communist rule was not perceived by us. All that talk about democratic socialism on the Scandinavian model deceived us. Foolish. In the event neither I nor my wife would have voted for either he or Clinton. I voted for the Libertarian for lack of something better.
Posted by: turcopolier | 03 August 2019 at 12:33 AM
It's odd to me that apparently well intentioned people (like Sen. Sanders & Rep. Ocasio-Castro) who support the Scandinavian Social-Democratic model don't see that the model they embrace is based on a **VERY** decentralized approach.
A bias towards extreme centralization seems to be the real unifying point for American Left; a real barrier to developing better approaches.
Posted by: John Minehan | 03 August 2019 at 08:53 AM
TTG,
I've read all of Castaneda's stuff but will never admit it. I found it fascinating even if none of it ever happened. Saga's are not devoid of truths.
His later works are very different from his earlier stuff, IMO because after his colleagues at UCLA demanded to see his field notes (which he was unable to produce) he abandoned his dream of being considered a "legitimate" anthropologist. Good! This fully unleashed an awesome imagination. "The Death Defiers" was a chapter in one if those books, the best ghost story I've ever read. Unfortunately...it's probably incomprehensible out of context. Like Rothko, he was diving head-first into that which can not be described with words.
FWIW Juan Matus was a Nagual. He had to be both a Dreamer and a Stalker. That's IMO as close as it gets to liberal and conservative in that world. Petty dichotomies in the immense shadow of The Eagle. In the classifications of personalities, Marianne is a classic East-wind Dreamer, Gabbard seems a Northerly woman, not sure if she's a Stalker or a Dreamer though...
Posted by: Mark Logan | 03 August 2019 at 06:24 PM
Mark,
They are great tails aren't they? Riveting, IMO.
In my opinion the first three books were probably *based* on an amalgamation of real elements. After that Castaneda went into pure fantasy, but it is great fantasy.
Posted by: Eric Newhill | 04 August 2019 at 08:26 AM
John,
Really? She was VP for Community and External Affairs at the University of Chicago Medical Center. There is not much health care lawyering in that job.
Posted by: Fred | 04 August 2019 at 12:08 PM
Eric,
It stuck in my mind too. When I heard this year that quantum entanglement essentially means that at the quantum level space is, incredibly, actually no space at all, that what we see as the universe is but a projection...I can't help but remember.
Posted by: Mark Logan | 04 August 2019 at 01:38 PM