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BigBearJohn

(11,410 posts)
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 08:48 PM Feb 2020

Marianne Williamson Switches 2020 Support from Andrew Yang to Endorse Bernie Sanders in Fiery Speech

Marianne Williamson: “You know what else I learned in that public school in Houston, Texas, I learned my history,” she said. “I learned that were other generations just like this one for whom it was time to stand up.” Invoking abolitionists, women suffragists, and civil right protestors, Williamson compared their social justice movements to the current one fueling Sanders’ rise to be the Democratic frontrunner.


“It was the people who rose up and the people who woke up and the people who stepped in…and now it is our turn,” Williamson declared to cheers. “And, of course, we’re being told, ‘It can’t happen, he can’t beat Trump, Bernie can’t beat Trump. It can’t happen. Well, what do you think they told the abolitionists? They said ‘Abolishing slavey is impossible. It can’t happen.’ And they said to the women suffragettes: ‘Oh, it’s impossible, it can’t happen.’ And they said to the civil rights workers, ‘It’s not possible, it can’t happen.'”

“They stood up for what America can be,” she added. “We have been trained in American over the last few decades to expect too little. To say, ‘pretty please’ about things that should be the right of every American.”

“Today, we are tired of saying ‘pretty please,'” Williamson proclaimed, winding up an emotional conclusion. “Because we’re going to stand up and we’re going to show up because we woke up and we’re going to say with grace and we’re going to say with style and we’re going to say to all those who say liberty and justice cannot be done: ‘Sure as hell can be, because we’re here and we’re with Bernie!”

Williamson’s speech begins at the 11:00 mark in video below.

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Marianne Williamson Switches 2020 Support from Andrew Yang to Endorse Bernie Sanders in Fiery Speech (Original Post) BigBearJohn Feb 2020 OP
Love defeats hate IronLionZion Feb 2020 #1
Thought she woyld go to Warren Bumperstickers Feb 2020 #2
Something is only impossible until it isn't. patphil Feb 2020 #3
If this was a run of the mill election Butterflylady Feb 2020 #4
There are plenty of things that are impossible that will always remain impossible. TwilightZone Feb 2020 #5
That's true also, but that doesn't make it impossible for Bernie to get elected. patphil Feb 2020 #7
Trump becoming president IronLionZion Feb 2020 #6
Very nice! Nanjeanne Feb 2020 #8
 

Bumperstickers

(199 posts)
2. Thought she woyld go to Warren
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 09:08 PM
Feb 2020

But when you become the clear frontrunner the endorsements start to snowball in your favor.

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patphil

(6,033 posts)
3. Something is only impossible until it isn't.
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 09:17 PM
Feb 2020

And then it becomes the norm.
There are millions of examples of this.
Here are just a few, make your own lists:

The telephone.
The electric light.
The 4 minute mile.
A Catholic President.
Putting a man on the moon.
Instantaneous communication anywhere in the world.
A black President.
Bernie Sanders becoming President.

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Butterflylady

(3,523 posts)
4. If this was a run of the mill election
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 09:22 PM
Feb 2020

I would agree wholeheartedly, but it's not.

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TwilightZone

(25,342 posts)
5. There are plenty of things that are impossible that will always remain impossible.
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 09:25 PM
Feb 2020

It's easy to say we thought something that we know exists used to be considered impossible. It's like confirmation bias taken to the nth degree.

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patphil

(6,033 posts)
7. That's true also, but that doesn't make it impossible for Bernie to get elected.
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 10:59 PM
Feb 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

IronLionZion

(45,258 posts)
6. Trump becoming president
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 09:36 PM
Feb 2020

stranger things have happened. America elected a wheelchair-bound leftist 4 times.

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primary today, I would vote for:
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