My question for you @marwilliamson is this: Can we achieve the ideal without confronting the American reality? 1. We have a Constitution written for white, male, property owners. 2. We have a #Democracy that has abdicated its power to unaccountable #CorporateGovernment.
Marianne Williamson
 @marwilliamson
15 May 2020
Replying to @EclecticRadical @cubanthuglfe702 @CarlaRK3
The American ideal is that nobody gets to β€œtake over,” and that everyone has equal opportunity. Obviously we’ve never fully actualized that ideal but it’s the purpose of every generation to try to get there. Sometimes, like now, it’s 2 steps backwards. But we have to keep trying.
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1/ Can we achieve the ideal without confronting the American reality?>> No. We have a Constitution written for white, male, property owners.>> That's the irony. Most of them didn't embody the principles they bequeathed to us, but the principles remain enlightened nonetheless.
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2 <<We have a #Democracy that has abdicated its power to unaccountable #CorporateGovernment.>> Other generations had to fight off slavery, institutionalized suppression of women, institutionalized white supremacy. We're not facing a bigger foe than they did; it's our turn now.
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1/ White supremacy is still institutionalized, suppression of women is still institutionalized, slavery is still legal. None of those things have been defeated, the struggle isn't over, and activists are being funneled into a Democratic Party that doesn't care about them.
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2/ No. The principles of the Founding Fathers were not particularly enlightened. They used very impressive political language, but the Constitution was deliberately designed to minimize and nullify democratic input from the actual people.
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Replying to @EclecticRadical
The very fact that we can be arguing this on twitter is because of those principles.

May 15, 2020 Β· 6:39 PM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
Untrue. We can have the same argument in Canada, Spain, Mexico, or even Tunisisa. There is nothing unique or exceptional about the principles they communicated. This conversation may also be read by the FBI right now. That's very American.
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There are many strains to American history. You can look at some of them in isolation, or you can look at them as a whole. No one gets to be wrong or right here. And no, you can’t say all that about Tunisia, Mexico or Spain.
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