America needs leadership, not plans
Dear Editor,
There are two main categories of Democratic presidential candidates for 2020. First, those such as Joe Biden who want to go back to the same course that took the country to where it is today. Second, those as exemplified by Bernie Sanders, who want to fashion the US into a European-style social democracy.
Neither side has enough support to unseat Donald Trump because they are all professional politicians with no fresh ideas and lack the charisma that inspires people to go out to vote.
The weakness of the Democratic field of candidates was exposed in the third debate in Houston when (without spiritualist Marianne Williamson on the stage) there was no talk of how to beat Trump or about a vision for the future. To beat Trump it will be necessary to give inspiration to vote not only to the Trump voters who are now having doubts, but also to the others who stayed at home or voted third party in 2016.
Most of the candidates tout their wonderful plans, including one candidate who boasts of having a plan for everything. The problem is that most plans never get implemented. People do not want to be given plans and instead are crying out for a leader who can connect with the broad electorate by providing moral leadership and a restoration of democracy.
Not only will constantly attacking Trump not help to defeat him, but it will only ‘shame’ his supporters and drive them further into his camp.
People want change, and change for the better. The idea is to inspire people to vote by giving them something to vote for.
Presidential candidate Marianne Williamson has made her living for the past 30 years by inspiring people — and is very good at it. She does not have plans for superficial fixes but wants to energise an uprising of consciousness to focus on solving national problems and their underlying causes, such as child trauma, poverty, race relations, and national security, subjects which are not talked about.
The point here is that these topics are interlinked under the theory of ‘intersectionality’ and cannot be dealt with in isolation; they require a holistic approach. Marianne Williamson knows this, but not the other candidates.
To end the Trump aberration in its history, America needs a leader to counter the Trump message of the big lie with the big truth.
Abraham Lincoln himself said that the main function of a president is to provide moral leadership.
In my opinion there is only one candidate who can do that and that is Marianne Williamson.
Victor A Dixon
Boynton Beach, Florida
victoradixon@yahoo.com