Marianne Williamson

I went to public schools in Houston. I had a voracious appetite for comparative religion and philosophy, and began reading a set of books called A Course in Miracles. The Course is not a religion, but rather a self-study program of spiritual psychotherapy based on universal spiritual themes. There is no dogma or doctrine; it is simply a book on how to forgive. My study of The Course, plus writing and speaking about it, turned into a 35-year career. When I began speaking to small groups about the Course in Los Angeles in 1983, the horrifying AIDS epidemic burst onto the scene. Los Angeles was hit particularly hard by the disease, and many of its victims found their way to my talks. I became deeply involved in the crisis, facilitating counseling and support groups; non-profit organizations in Los Angeles and New York to provide non-medical support to people living with life-challenging illnesses; and the creation of Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels service to homebound people with AIDS that has now served over 11 million meals. I have since published 12 other books, the fourth of which was called Healing the Soul of America. Four of my books have been #1 New York Times bestsellers. I recently wrote a book called A Politics of Love: Handbook for a New American Revolution. I had become deeply aware of the larger personal, economic and social problems faced by people throughout our country and the world. I have been a teacher of transformational wisdom, a successful businesswoman, and a political activist. I have counseled leaders ranging from business to culture to politics. I have participated in many non-profit activities, including co-founding THE PEACE ALLIANCE working on the Board of RESULTS, and speaking for various charitable causes. I produced and hosted four SISTER GIANT Conferences, facilitating the connection of thousands of women to progressive activism and electoral politics.

• I have an inspiring vision for America - speak to the heart of the matter, articulate the deeper forces that have divided us as a country, and harness the motivation and inspiration we will need to turn our country around.
• We will harness love to defeat the forces of hatred - and love will win.
• We must realign our economics with justice, rescue millions of traumatized children, heal our racial divide, reverse climate change, and regain America's moral authority as a world leader.

We need an economy that serves our humanity, rather than an economy that runs roughshod over our humanity. We need more broadly shared prosperity through fair taxes, stronger unions and better wages and working conditions. We can unleash the creativity of the American people by improving economic security and education: as people pursue their dreams, we will achieve peace and prosperity.

We need a season of moral repair.

We need to do our best to love one another, not just as individuals, but as groups of individuals.

We need to take care of our children.

We need to remember that serving our country is more important than serving ourselves.

Read my books, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution, and Healing the Soul of America.

Integrity.
Having the best interests of the American people at heart.

Vision.
Ability to inspire people.
Integrity. Being incorruptible.

Protect Americans from threats from without and within.
Launch a Season of Repair to heal our nation and bring people together.
Enact policies and programs that strengthen the economic security of working people.

A legacy of love that transforms politics and government to benefit We the People.

I began speaking to small groups about the Course at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles in 1983, the strange and horrifying AIDS epidemic burst onto the scene. Los Angeles was hit particularly hard by the disease, and many of its victims found their way to my talks. I became deeply involved in the crisis, facilitating counseling and support groups; non-profit organizations in Los Angeles and New York to provide non-medical support to people living with life-challenging illnesses; and the creation of Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels service to homebound people with AIDS that has now served over 11 million meals to people in the Los Angeles area. In a very real sense, my life's work emerged from that experience.

A Politics of Love, because it lays out my vision for America.

Running for office is challenging!

I would support reforms that return power to the American people, not corporations and the very rich. This includes supporting a constitutional amendment that overturns the Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court that legalized a flood of money in politics, restoring voting rights protections, and stopping gerrymandering districts. I would also take steps to strengthen the economic security of working Americans, AND to address the climate crisis.

We need a visionary leader who can inspire Americans to act. I can be that inspirational leader.
Also I have a 35 year career helping people move from trauma to transformation. That's what we need to do as a country right now.

Overturn Citizens United. Limit money in politics.

I am the first presidential candidate to advocate for reparations, and the only one with a plan for how to do it.

In many ways, America has continued the process of racial reconciliation begun in the 1960's. Yet in other ways, we have actually slipped backward. Yes, there are no more colored bathrooms and separate drinking fountains. But we now have mass incarceration; racial disparity in criminal sentencing; lost voting rights; outright voter suppression; and police brutality often focused on black populations.

Tepid solutions are not enough for the times in which we live; we need huge, strategized acts of righteousness, now. Just as Germany has paid $89 Billion in reparations to Jewish organizations since WW2, the United States should pay reparations for slavery. A debt unpaid is still a debt unpaid, even if it's 150 years later. The legacy of that injustice lives on, with racist policies infused into our systems even to this day. From employment and housing discrimination, to equal access to quality education in underserved communities, to police brutality/prejudice, to lack of fair lending practices, to lack of access to quality healthcare, to insecure voting rights, America has not yet completed the task of healing our racial divide.

For that reason, I propose a $200 billion - $500 billion plan of reparations for slavery, the money to be disbursed over a period of twenty years. An esteemed council of African-American leaders would determine the educational and economic projects to which the money would be given.

FDR.

Each of these presidents was skilled at offering a vision for a better America, and inspiring people to believe it is possible. I seek to do the same, but with my own agenda. See www.Marianne2020.com and review Issues.

Harnassing love as a political force. It is the only thing that will defeat Trump. And it is what America needs to heal.

Speaker/writer. I am a best-selling author and have published 13 books.

I initially opposed Impeachment of Trump. But after learning that the president pressured a foreign leader to dig up dirt on his political opponent, I now support impeachment.

I would look for people who have intelligence and integrity, and who have the best interests of the American people at heart.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr