You Don't Have to Vote for Marianne Williamson—Just Don't Call Her Crazy
Here’s the thing: In a time when American children are being gunned down in schools and where the mortality rate foron their first day of life is higher in the United States than any other developed country, stating that you want children to grow up happy shouldn’t be cause for snickering.
Throughout her campaign, Williamson talks more about ideas than plans. Some people might see that as an inability to lead, but when inciting the darkest parts of humanity helped win the previous election, trying to appeal to the light side doesn’t sound like such a bad idea. In other words, it’s not so much people’s response to Williamson the person as it is to her philosophy that I find unsettling.
Williamson said, “If you think we’re going to beat Donald Trump by just having all these plans, you’ve got another thing coming. Because he didn’t win by saying he had a plan. He won by simply saying ‘make America great again.’” It was never about taxes, or keeping your gun, it was about resuscitating the ugliest parts of America. And it worked.
Campaign promises—plans for Medicare, plans for how to curb climate change—are great. But promises without a fundamental shift in thinking will simply become empty promises. Williamson is trying to teach us that our mind-set needs a new baseline, one of true empathy, so that it becomes impossible to deny people basic health care, so that Americans would never for one second think that separating breastfeeding mothers from their infants at the border is in any way acceptable.
Reflect on the words of Martin Luther King Jr. who said, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” Those words were said more than 50 years ago. My hope would be that we live in a time when they are met with understanding and acceptance instead of memes. I’m not here to ask you to vote for Williamson, but I am here to ask you not to call her crazy.
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