Marianne Williamson – The Heart of Conscious Politics

OMTimes: I fully agree with you, but at the same time, this country is deep “in the red” and America depends on the money it makes from weapon production, the money it makes from the oil production and the money it makes from the GMO developments, so how realistic is your view?

Marianne Williamson: I don’t know how good it will be for anybody to be rich if the nuclear bomb goes off so I think more people are realizing that there are other issues besides money. When you talked about the bottom line being the short term economic gain for the company, your point actually proves my point which is why corporations should not run the world. Short term economic gain for the shareholders within a particular business context is appropriate. It is not appropriate paradigm for running a country. We are not a business and we should not be run like a business. We have children here who have no financial leverage and if you only say that those with financial leverage serving their own bottom line get to influence our policies, where does that lead people who do not have financial leverage? Where does that lead children for instance who do not work? That is why to me the bottom line issue, the main corruptor, and it is a corrupting influence at this point, is the undue influence of money on our political functioning and that’s why the cornerstone of my platform is getting money out of politics.