A Revolution of the Heart: Interview with Marianne Williamson

Recently, Zoe Kors of LA Yoga interviewed Marianne Williamson, independent candidate for congress in California’s 33rd district. From the interview:

ZK: What would you like to influence in Washington?

MW: There is a conversation already happening in Washington and around the country about ridding our political system of the undue influence of money. The situation now, in which monied interests have such disproportionate leverage on our political system, is the cancer underlying most of our problems. It’s why we have such large income inequality and child poverty, why we’re not making more progress on climate change, why we’re experiencing the corruption of our food supply, why we don’t have paid maternity leave, and so forth. The American people will always be playing defense—trying to defend ourselves against encroaching control by monied interests—until we fundamentally deal with this one issue. There are many arrows in the quiver, but our ultimate goal should be a constitutional amendment determining that money will not have undue influence on our political functioning. That is a big task—but abolition was a big task, women’s suffrage was a big task. I believe the legalized corruption that now exists represents the dismantling of democracy. Correcting our course is the greatest moral challenge of our generation.

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