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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3/ William Lloyd Garrison called the Constitution a "covenant with death" because of its tacit approval and support of slavery. I would argue that it is even more of a covenant with death than ever, because it still allows slavery and still denies women equal rights.
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Replying to @EclecticRadical
So the march of history, the improvements of former generations mean nothing to you. They do to me. We improved at times, slid back at times. The point is what we do in our own time.

May 15, 2020 Β· 6:40 PM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
What improvements? I understand why you don't want to let go of the myth that we have somehow come so far, but that myth is what keeps us from actually moving forward.