After the first Democratic Presidential Debate, Marianne Williamson generated a lot of interest.
On the one hand, her name ended up being the most searched on the internet. With language and demeanor vastly different from the other candidates, people wanted to know who she might be.
On the other hand, Williamson generated a good deal of ridicule. Seth Meyers joked that she clearly won't be around this fall. Ha ha; who would be so foolish as to think otherwise! Kate McKinnon (pictured above) offered a woo-woo Williamson impression that had Marianne eliminating global problems by burning all the sage on the planet. TYT's Brooke Thomas dismissed Marianne as a "vanity candidate" intent merely on selling her books.
All of that was itself laughable for those who know Marianne Williamson. We know she's not a woo-woo lightweight; she doesn't need to sell more books; and if people understand just who she is and grasp her fundamental message, she'll definitely be around this fall.
And that's because her absolutely radical approach to politics supplies the simple key we've all been looking for to solve the endless problems on our national list, be it climate change, the threat of nuclear war, terrorism, or immigration.
Let me repeat: her approach offers a key far more radical and easily understood than anything Bernie or Elizabeth even imagines or dares to say.
The key I'm referencing is basic to the teaching of A Course in Miracles (ACIM), which has been the guidebook for Marianne's life and teaching for more than 40 years. Williamson herself describes the course as basic Christian mysticism. It's not a religion; it's not for everyone; it doesn't even demand belief in God. However, it does respond to the universal human quest for ethical principle and spiritual meaning, whether the quest is understood as generated by God, Yahweh, Allah, Krishna, the Buddha, Ultimate Reality, the Ground of Being, Life Itself, or Nature with a capital "N."
But what about that key I mentioned?
It's simply this: take 100% responsibility for your problems and deal with them accordingly.
That's it. And, though difficult to actually implement, that assumption of complete responsibility will go a long way towards eliminating not only personal and inter-personal problems, but all our political conundrums as well.
How radical is that?
It's the opposite, of course, from the approach of Mr. Trump and even of Marianne's colleagues on the debate stage. In contrast to Marianne, every one of them adopts the standard cliched and stereotyped approach so familiar to all of us in our personal lives: I'm not the problem; she is; he is; they are.
In political terms it's refugees, immigrants, people of color, welfare cheats, unprovoked "terrorists," the Russians, Chinese, Iranians, Somalis, Libyans, Syrians, MS-13 gang members, and drug dealers. The list goes on and on and on. All of those included must be punished, subjected to sanctions, bombed, droned, or killed. That's our "foreign policy" in a nutshell.
But we never find fault in ourselves. Never!
Pertinently and most recently, such unwillingness to accept responsibility was expressed by President Trump in his racist harangue against Congressional Representatives Ilhan Omar, Rashida Talib, Ayanna Presley, and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (AOC). According to Mr. Trump all four representatives outrageously blame the United States the problems of terrorism, Palestinian oppression, public misinformation, and immigration problems. Here's what Trump and his audience ridiculed as patently ludicrous:
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