Marianne Williamson Instagram – I called for the President to step down from his renomination bid the day after the Trump-Biden debate. Effective crisis management would have called for all those who are calling for him to step down now, to do so immediately – when I did. They did not do so because they were waiting until they could consider it a politically safe thing to do.
That’s how much control the party holds over its elected members. Yet ever day that Democrats have waited, they ceded ground to Trump. And even now when they discuss opening the nomination, their ideas of who should step forward are political leaders who have felt too fearful of the party’s ire to stand up and speak before now. (I do not include Kamala Harris in that group because it’s literally her job to support the President and I respect that.)
Do we need a Democrat to beat Donald Trump? Oh YES! But the soul of the Democratic party does not lie with the Democratic Party machine. I am an FEC registered qualified candidate. I am on the ballot. And despite a media blacklisting of my campaign and the most absurd kinds of character assassination, I received half a million votes in the primary. My platform would be considered moderate in any other advanced democracy.
I hope my supporters – as well as those who do not necessarily support my agenda yet support the practice of democracy itself, and do not agree with political parties having the right to obstruct or to manipulate it – will join me in insisting that I have the right to be in any open convention contest going forward. Any debates. Any Town Halls. Any contention whatsoever.
No, I’m not politics as usual. But that is the point.
Neither is Donald Trump…which is why I’m the one to beat him.
Marianne2024.com
Photo by: Dave Weigel | Posted on 21/Jul/2024 22:14:18
