Marianne Williamson is often asked what spirituality has to do with politics. She answers: "Spirituality is simply the path of the heart. And the problem with American politics today is how often our policies are heartless." Blake Lasater's sermon with the Methodists today had to do with the same thing. He spoke of how we are here to help each other, yet so often it's "me first" with individuals, churches, and other groups of people. He stated that his measure of whether a church is successful isn't how big their building is or how good their music programs are, but what they are doing for their community. When our government policies are heartless, it seems okay for individuals to be the same, for churches to say they must take care of themselves, for communities to build fences and declare themselves safe. It's way past time for us to look at what really matters. A wise man once said the measure of a country is in how it treats its animals. It's also in how it treats the hopeless, the homeless, the hungry, the children, its citizens. I will vote for candidates who care, not just about economic growth, but about human growth, about our planet, our rivers, our food supplies. Corporations are not people. They don't cry or care. Look your neighbor in the eye, listen to a friend in need, say a kind word to the serviceperson helping you, vote for a person who does the same. We can make a difference!
"My campaign is a clarion call to the American people. It is time for us to use our power, as other generations before us have used theirs, to put America back on track when we have socially, politically and morally gone astray.
Help me override the control of the political industrial complex, penetrate the field of resistance to fundamental change, and provide the American people with a genuine alternative to the corporate aristocracy.
Our hands are strong, our hearts are ready, and the time is now…
Let’s have love for our country, and the courage to serve her in this critical hour." Marianne Williamson
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