A Guide to the 2020 Election Candidate: Marianne Williamson
Words and Illustrations by Sarah Logan
With 2018 already longgone and 2019 steadily racing along, many have been thinking about the next presidentialelection. Who will run? What will their policies be? Will their proposed changeshelp the future of America at all?
Marianne Williamson, anauthor and spiritual advocate from Houston, Texas, is running for president in2020. Standing tall at 66 years old, she plans to transform the future ofAmerica by adding in spiritually and morally infused proposals.
The Democratic candidategrew up with her parents, her siblings, and her four grandparents who wereimmigrants from Eastern Europe. Her parents were well off, her mother a stay athome mom and her father an immigration lawyer.
She was aware of theproblems that plagued Americans at a young age. Driven to rid America of theseissues, she boldly decided to run for presidency. On her campaign website, shewrites, “Where I saw something wrong, I was taught it’s my responsibility tomake it right.” She is running because she finds pride in fixing what has beenbroken. Additionally, she states that shifting America’s focus from money tomoral values will repair it even further.
Williamson stresses theidea that America must be fixed not only from the outside, but from the insideas well. In order to remedy economic, environmental, and educational issues, themoral values of Americans need to be changed, she claims. To make sense of thisidea, she uses the metaphor: “We care not only about what is happening to ourbodies, but also what is happening to our souls.”
Williamson provides manysolutions to today’s education system. She emphasizes the need for universaleducation from a young age as it decreases the chances of incarceration foruneducated Americans. She also believes that the high cost of college educationis not allowing students the fundamental opportunity to further theireducational path. She proposes, if granted to qualified students, that freecollege and higher education tuition can solve this problem. She writes that“if we cannot find ideal offsets for this expense, (college/technical schooltuition) I’m open to exploring ways that students can repay some of these costswith a small payroll tax once they start working or through reasonable amountsof public service.”
Williamson’s ideas to refashionthe educational system seem promising for both college students and the youngergeneration of learners.
