Marianne Williamson for Congress -- ?

Marianne Williamson for Congress --  ?

In Natural Awakenings Magazine, self-help guru and lecturer Marianne Williamson claimed that we have the power to redeem our world. As a Democrat-turned-Independent, she is running for Congress. Not content with changing the world one soul at a time, she believes that she can heal Congress’ soul with a big hug of liberal-progressive bipartisanship.

Her latest mailer, however, highlights endorsements from leading Democrats: former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, retired Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison, and former “Desperate Housewife” Eva Longoria.

Granholm was replaced by Republican Rick Snyder, who brought a limited government low-tax, lower-spending, and lowered union-influence political culture to Michigan, engineering a roaring recovery. That’s real progress. Kucinich is now a Fox News contributor who suggested that Obama should be impeached, should he use military force in Syria without Congressional approval. Kucinich is more limited government than progressive, to say the least. Congressman Ellison claimed that Obamacare-related job losses are a good thing because “Americans work too much anyway”. Most Americans are not working at all or losing hours because of Obamacare. How is that progress? As for Actress Eva Longoria: is Williamson’s campaign remotely serious?

In the same mailer, Williamson attacks “expanding corporate influence” in politics. Doesn’t corporate influence expose more people to her books and lectures, too? She then compares her independent status to Vermont US Senator Bernie Sanders, a self-described socialist. If anyone wants to call socialism progress, consider the bankrupted nations of Europe, fraught with tax fraud, government unionism, and welfare-state profligacy.

Williamson also wants to “disrupt the political system” and “renew our dedication to democracy”. The Constitution instituted a republic, frustrating popular democracy as well as special interest elitism. The TEA Party movement is disrupting business as usual in Washington.

To redeem Washington DC, Williamson should have run as a conservative.