2020 presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson on her qualifications: The US has been 'sliding for the last 40 years away from democracy and into aristocracy' WilliamsonTownHall
Williamson: The US has been "sliding for the last 40 years away from democracy and into aristocracy"Marianne Williamson, an author and activist running for the Democratic nomination in 2020, argued her candidacy should be taken seriously because “we have been sliding for the last 40 years away from democracy and into aristocracy” and she is willing to “name what everybody else knows and they won’t name.
Williamson said that her campaign is against the establishment of politics – on both sides – that has controlled American politics. But the author largely brushed off qualification questions and declined to get into her ability to actually run a government. “What’s happened in this country didn’t come out of nowhere. We have a crisis in our democracy. That’s due to the fact we have been sliding for the last 40 years away from democracy and into aristocracy because of tax policies,” Williamson said. “Because of corporate subsidies, the nefarious influence of money on our system. We have gone from a system where we prize in an economic as well as political democracy, equal opportunity for everyone to a situation where a small group of people.
Asked directly by CNN’s Dana Bash for her qualification in actually running a government, Williamson said, “My qualification is I’ll name what everybody else knows and they won’t name.”Democratic presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson's town hall starts now. You can watch it in the video player above.for being a spiritual counselor to Oprah Winfrey and has written several best-selling books, including her debut"A Return to Love.
She's also proposing $100 billion in reparations for slavery, $10 billion a year to be distributed over 10 years.Spiritual author Marianne Williamson joins CNN for a town hall tonight, a best-selling author who is a spiritual counselor to Oprah Winfrey, will take questions from voters at a town hall tonight.Williamson, a Texas native, has
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