President Joe Biden has clinched the Democratic nomination for the presidency. Voters in New Mexico still have an opportunity to weigh in on his agenda, however.
Marianne Williamson’s agenda is fundamental economic reform; “a government of the people, by the people, and for the people” has become “a government of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations” and we must change that.
The last 50 years have seen a $50 trillion transfer of wealth from the bottom 90% of our people to the top 1%, and the message of the Democratic Party should be, “That stops now.” That is how we will beat Donald Trump, and it is also how we will heal the country. A vote for Marianne Williamson in the New Mexico primary is the way to make sure that President Biden will get the message.
The Democratic Party should display an unequivocal advocacy for the working people of the U.S, and only a truly progressive agenda will achieve that. With 39% of Americans now reporting that they regularly skip meals to pay their rent, and millions literally selling their blood plasma to pay bills, a message that the economy is doing well is not the message that will inspire people to vote Democrat in 2024.
Short term profit maximization for huge corporate interests has become a false god in America, an economic governing principle that has replaced democracy itself as America’s new bottom line. It is the task of this generation to end that trend.
We need an Economic Bill of Rights: improved Medicare for All, tuition-free college and tech school, paid family leave, guaranteed sick pay, and a guaranteed living wage. We need a U.S. Department of Peace, a Department of Children and Youth to deal with the many and dangerous risks to our kids, and a mass mobilization for a just transition from a dirty to a clean economy.
We also need a cease-fire in Gaza; the U.S. should stand for a robust commitment to the peace, safety and security of both Israelis and Palestinians.
Our campaign in 2024 must motivate people to think that yes, if they vote for the Democrat, it will materially improve their lives over the next four years.
The American economy delivers true prosperity to only 20% of our citizens. We desperately need a president who is willing to stand up to what FDR referred to as the “economic royalists” that have turned our government into a system of legalized bribery. We need to push back against the corporate overlords who now exercise a system of economic tyranny by which a few keep getting rich and the majority have a harder and harder time just getting by.
The American people have been trained to expect too little. Now is the time to make clear that such things as universal health care, tuition-free college, and a guaranteed living wage — all provided to the citizens of every other advanced democracy in the world — should be provided to every American citizen as well.
A vote for Marianne Williamson in the presidential primary sends a message that certain issues need to be reflected in his campaign, not only because they matter to us, but because they are key to defeating Donald Trump in November.
Marianne Williamson, of Washington, D.C., is a candidate for U.S. president. She appears on June 4 Democratic primary ballots in New Mexico along with President Joe Biden.
By Mike Daly
Gallup Citizen
