jewess Marianne Williamson challenges Biden for 2024 nomination

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First Democratic challenger to expected Biden 2024 bid emerges
Author Marianne Williamson  is making a fresh run for the White House
https://www.rt.com/news/572191-marianne-williamson-democratic-nomination/

Marianne Williamson will formally declare her candidacy for the Democratic nomination in the 2024 presidential race in the US this week, she has announced, becoming the first blue camp challenger to President Joe Biden's expected reelection run.

The nation needs politics that "does not base itself on the crass imperatives of endless corporate profit, but on the eternal imperatives of our principles and values," she said in a statement on Monday, explaining her decision to bid for the presidency again.

The US needs to treat the root causes of the problems it faces, she argued, indicating that she will run as an anti-establishment politician. An event to formally kick off her campaign is scheduled for Saturday.

Williamson, 70, is the first person to announce a bid for the 2024 Democratic nomination. She participated in the 2020 cycle, seeking to represent the same party, but dropped out early, endorsing fellow progressive candidate Bernie Sanders. In 2016, she vocally supported Sanders against Hillary Clinton.

Her 2020 run was mired by negative media coverage focusing on her lack of political experience. She was dismissed as the "crystal woo woo lady" by detractors, who were alluding to her self-help books and long-held interest in spirituality.

The candidate acknowledged that her chances will likely be estimated as slim at best, but noted that since Donald Trump's 2016 victory, "it's odd for anyone to think they know who can win the presidency."

"And I'm not putting myself through this again just to add to the conversation. I'm running for president to help bring an aberrational chapter of our history to a close, and to help bring forth a new beginning," Williamson stated.

Biden is yet to confirm a reelection bid, though the White House has repeatedly stated that he has every intention of running. However, Politico claimed last week that this was not a certainty and that Biden's failure to formally announce had caused "an awkward deep-freeze across the party" as some insiders are considering "a Plan B."

On the Republican side so far, Trump and former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley have declared their 2024 presidential ambitions.




Yes, even though her name is Williamson, she's a jew  , as we see in this p;ost from January 26, 2022:

Self-Help Gurus Support the "Holocaust"
by John Wear
https://codoh.com/library/document/self-help-gurus-support-the-holocaust/en/

Marianne Williamson
Self-help guru and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson writes of her visit to Holland:[18]

"On the same trip, I visited the house of Anne Frank. It's been years since I read The Diary of Anne Frank, and I thought I had internalized her story and its meaning. Yet visiting the Anne Frank museum with my daughter on this trip, I could barely stop crying—in fact, I couldn't stop crying—as I walked through the rooms of her family's house. Seeing where she slept, unable to run outside and play or even look at sunlight through the window; seeing the places on her wall where her father pasted pictures from magazines so it wouldn't seem quite so dreary; thinking of the extraordinary, daily tension and fear that were experienced by those hiding in those rooms as well as by their friends who were hiding them; thinking of all the years they survived that way, only to have their hiding place betrayed a year before the end of the war; and thinking of Anne's horrifying days at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, only to die one month before the liberation of the camps—I could hardly bear the weight of such sorrow, mixed with Anne's profound and compassionate insights into the nature of the human heart. I thought about her father's survival, his learning of his family's death, his publishing Anne's diaries—and always with the realization that this same tale of suffering was experienced not once but 6 million times."

The fate of Anne Frank, who is known around the world for her famous diary, is typical of many Jews who died in German camps during the war. Anne and her father were first deported from the Netherlands to Auschwitz-Birkenau in September 1944. Anne's father contracted typhus at Auschwitz and was sent to the camp hospital to recover. He was one of thousands of Jews who remained at Auschwitz when the Germans abandoned the camp in January 1945. He survived the war and died in Switzerland in 1980.

In the face of the advancing Soviet Army, Anne Frank was evacuated to Bergen-Belsen, where she died of typhus in March 1945. While Anne Frank's fate was tragic, her story is not consistent with a German plan of extermination against the Jews. Along with thousands of others at Bergen-Belsen, Anne died from a typhus epidemic and not from a German plan to commit genocide against European Jewry. Williamson's mention of 6 million Jews who died during the war is also a ridiculous exaggeration.[19]

Marianne Williamson also writes:[20]

"There is a building in Amsterdam where all Jews were rounded up by the Nazis for deportation to the concentration camps, where many of them would be gassed immediately upon arrival. A plaque on the building says we should take a moment and remember them. In that moment, I think the departed souls feel our blessing; hopefully, in some way, it helps bring them peace."

Williamson in this passage falsely states that Jews were gassed in German concentration camps during World War II. The reality is that there were no homicidal gas chambers in any of the German concentration camps.[21]

Williamson states in a recent interview that Germany has paid $89 billion in reparations to Jewish organizations as compensation for the so-called Holocaust. She thinks these reparations are a good thing because they have helped to establish reconciliation between Jews and Germans. Williamson does not understand that the official Holocaust story is a fraud. She also fails to explain why Germans should not be compensated for the millions of Germans who were mass murdered by the Allies after World War II.[22]

Williamson praises the luminosity of Oscar Schindler's accountant. Williamson writes:[23]

"In the movie Schindler's List, the character of Schindler's accountant, played by Ben Kingsley, demonstrates this luminosity: Barred by circumstances from fully speaking his opinions, the man's moral substance has a profound effect on Schindler nevertheless. This change within Schindler saves many people's lives. Philosophically, the accountant is the center of the movie, the miracle-worker, the conduit of truth, the bearer of a silent power that casts out evil through the awakening of good."

Williamson fails to acknowledge in this passage that Germany did not have a program of genocide against the Jews, and that Schindler's List is a manipulative propaganda movie. Williamson states that she is always open to learning more.[24] Hopefully, she will eventually study the so-called Holocaust and learn that the official Holocaust story is fraudulent.

Williamson, who is Jewish, also writes about the need for healing among nations:[25]

"On August 1, 1994, the Polish nation commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, in which 200,000 Poles were killed by German Nazis, and 500,000 more were transported to concentration camps.

During this commemoration, German president Roman Herzog made an extraordinary apology to the Polish people. 'Today, I bow down before the fighters of the Warsaw Uprising as before all Polish victims of the war,' he said. 'I ask for forgiveness for what has been done to you by Germans. [...] It fills us Germans with shame that the name of our country and people will forever be associated with pain and suffering, which was inflicted on Poland a million times. We mourn the dead of the Warsaw Uprising and all people who lost their lives in World War II.'"

Williamson fails to explain why the Allies should not apologize and reimburse Germany for the millions of Germans murdered after the end of World War II. Williamson also does not understand the context for the Warsaw Uprising. SS-Panzergrenadier Hans Schmidt expressed his view of Germany's actions during the Warsaw Uprising:[26]

"For the Poles to start the August 1944 uprising in their capital city at the very moment when the German soldiers of the Eastern front were in a desperate defensive battle with the Red Army proved a great miscalculation. It bears remembering that the numerous marshaling yards around Warsaw were the major railroad connections between the Reich and the Eastern front, and these connections had to be held at all costs. Consequently the German reprisals against both the partisans as well as against the general population supporting the underground fighters were both swift and brutal. The inner city of Warsaw was largely destroyed during the ferocious battles that lasted for two months. To make a special issue, as the Poles seem to do even to this day, of the fact that the Germans leveled the inner city of Warsaw during the uprising is ludicrous. By that time most German inner cities had been destroyed, and the Allies had even attacked targets in Rome and Paris, something the German High Command had always avoided. Considering everything, there was no reason for the German High Command to go easy on the residents of the Polish capital."

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Ain't she pretty?!  Madam President!   


MARIANNE WILLIAMSON, FUSING BERNIE SANDERS AND (EARLY) JORDAN PETERSON, IS TAKING OVER TIKTOK
Marianne mania is gripping TikTok.
https://theintercept.com/2023/04/14/marianne-williamson-tiktok/?
THE KIDS MAY or may not be alright, but one thing is clear: They are super into Marianne Williamson. If engagement on TikTok is any indication, a Democratic presidential primary held today among people under 50 would result in a landslide for the bestselling author now making her second bid for the nomination.

Williamson has only posted 65 videos on TikTok, yet has drawn more than 11 million views, according to a TikTok data counter. But there are also endless Marianne stan (Maristanne?) accounts — @marianne2024winner and @marianne4prez among them — that post her speeches and rack up massive numbers. A scroll through the popular account @realdemocrat20 turns up multiple Williamson videos, all generating eye-popping numbers for her treatises on universal health care, corruption, gun rights, or abortion, including nearly a million views for whatever this is.

A recent poll found Williamson hovering above 20 percent with voters under 30 — far higher than she reached in the crowded 2020 field — suggesting the buzz on TikTok is translating into real support or that real support is producing the buzz on TikTok. "I am obsessed with it," said Jessica Burbank, a leftist political TikTok star who posts as @kaburbank, of the Marianne mania.

Some reasons for the support are obvious: Videos of her pledging to wipe out student debt and remove marijuana from Schedule I have predictably gone viral. But so have others that speak more holistically about the political system and the corruption that limits the ability of people to have their voices heard or their collective will translated into public policy. And the one that mentions student debt and weed also includes a pledge to beef up the National Labor Relations Board, cut all government contracts with union-busting companies, and otherwise do everything she can as president to boost organized labor.

The notion that Williamson, in her second run at the prize, can seize the Democratic nomination remains far-fetched, as she'd probably be the longest shot in American history to claim a major-party nomination, after maybe John W. Davis's surprise win at a deadlocked Democratic convention in 1924. The same poll had Joe Biden up 73 percent to 10 over Williamson — though her support rises to 14 percent in battleground states. Still, there's much to be learned about our current politics by taking seriously the phenomenon of her surging youth support.

WILLIAMSON REALIZED SOMETHING unusual was going on when friends began reaching out to say their kids were becoming her fans on the platform. "All these people would text me and say, 'My 17-year-old loves you,' 'My 20 or 22-year-old wants to know if she can have your email,'" she said. "I don't wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and say, 'Hello, TikTok star.' But obviously, I'm grateful that there is a platform, that there is a venue, where I'm seen and the message is received."

The popularity of Williamson on TikTok and among young people generally means that the White House's strategy toward her so far — explicit mockery — may come with some risks. Asked about Williamson in March, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre fumbled a canned effort at ridicule. "I mean, if I had a — what is it called? A little globe here," Jean-Pierre said, laughing, "a crystal ball, then I could tell you. A magic eight ball or whatever. If I could feel her aura." If Williamson does end up overperforming among young voters who see her as a credible outsider critic of the system, Democrats will have a hard time winning them back over if they've done nothing but mock her.

Williamson is often dismissed as a flighty, self-help mystic, and it grates on her. Her books have sold millions of copies and spent months atop the New York Times bestsellers list, but she senses that many of her critics are not among those readers. "A lot of people talk about my work who clearly have not read it, or they will take one sentence out of context." she said. "When it comes to the idea of crystals and auras and all of that, I've written 16 books, and nowhere do you read anything about crystals or auras. Although in some of my books, you do read about the corporatocracy, racial inequity, criminal injustice, etc."

What makes Williamson unique in politics is her explicit linkage of spiritual inspiration and personal uplift with left-wing sensibilities around community and a collective struggle against corruption and greed. Williamson largely champions the agenda established by fellow 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, but Sanders never spoke directly to the spiritual rot wrought by neoliberalism the way Williamson does. New Age is not quite his thing.

Yet the self-help, up-by-their-bootstraps mentality runs deep in American mythology. Even the term "New Age" undersells how old the phenomenon is, the way a mixture of striving and inchoate spiritual yearning has coursed through American culture back to its colonial days. It has most often been channeled politically by the right as an elevation of rugged individualism wielded against any form of collective action or as a valve to release pressure on the government to do something. Don't like your working conditions? Don't bond together with fellow laborers into a union; just go West, young man. Williamson inverts that right-wing critique and argues that it is our atomization, particularly in such anxious and precarious times, that drains both our power and our spirit in the service of the powerful. Her pairing of those two strains is neatly captured in the title and subtitle of her 2019 book, "A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution," which is itself a nod to her mega-bestseller, the 1992 book "A Return To Love."

Williamson has helped herself on TikTok by embracing the platform and using it the same way other creators do, which helps her appear more authentic. She also told me that her team reached out to one of the first stan accounts, @marrianne4prez, and brought the author in-house to show them how to do it. But Burbank noted that even the nonnative stuff does extremely well. "Videos of her giving speeches regularly go viral," Burbank said. "She seems more unfiltered and ready to call out corruption and offer root solutions this time around." She said a recent extended livestream of hers held an audience of 5,000-7,000 throughout, ending up with two million likes.

"Kids are just so critical and done with systems being broken, not being able to have access to health care, education," Burbank said. "The actual deliverance of public goods is something that she's always talking about."

IN CAPTURING THE hearts of young people on TikTok, Williamson is perhaps reproducing a phenomenon on the left that already swept through the right half a decade ago or more. I mean no offense when I say Marianne Williamson has the potential to become the Jordan Peterson of the left, fusing a politics of personal accountability with the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment that is achieved in significant part by fighting collectively with those around for a better world. Put another way, the Marianne Williamson phenomenon among young people is what you get when you combine Bernie Sanders and early Jordan Peterson. The Sanders slogan of 2020, "Not Me, Us," is expanded by Williamson's campaign to suggest that the me and the us are interrelated, that fighting for the "us" makes the "me" a better person, one more able to confront the traumatizing reality of contemporary society together than alone.