Marianne Williamson – The Heart of Conscious Politics

OMTimes: Soon you might become a congress woman in District 33. What are your top goals?

Marianne Williamson: My goals have to do with broadening the conversation around our need to repudiate the undue influence of money on our politics. I see that as the underlying cancer, the issue underlying all the other issues. What we think of ‘the issues’ are derivative and we need to do more than just address the symptoms. We have to address the disease and the disease is the fact that we have become a system of legalized corruption and bribery because the money forces are able to wield and influence on the functioning of our government. A government that is so completely disproportionate to the influence that is wielded by the average citizen. We had a very terrible civil war. Many hundreds of thousands of people died and on the Battle of Gettysburg, where tens of thousands of men died what we can only assume to have been horrific deaths, our President Abraham Lincoln stood on that battlefield and said that those men have not died in vain. They have died so that the government of the people and by the people and for the people would not perish from the earth. What our government has now transitioned into is a government of a few of the people, by a few of the people, for a few of the people. If we are as we are now, a generation who watch making a mockery of the Gettysburg address, that is a very serious issue which will be passionately discussed and that is why I am ready for Congress.