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Marianne Williamson May be domestic cozy candidate, which makes me suspect she may be a couple of years too early, unless tail-end millennials are cozier than I’m estimating The love/healing message is a sharp contrast to wonky save-the-institutions battle between left/far-left
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All the mainstream dems (except maybe Beto?) seem to have a hard political-machine gladiator vibe to them, and none of them seems willing to give up gladiatorial posture to inject dominant healer note. They’re fighting on the left/far-left axis instead of the healer/bruiser axis.
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I don’t think Trump can be beaten in a bruiser-on-bruiser contest, not because the dems can’t brawl as well as him (some seem able, like Harris, Warren, Bernie) but because the base among Democrats is NOT like the Jacksonian-America base backing Trump. They want love, not war.
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But it’s not just defensive. Remember that her spirituality is 1. evangelical and 2. purports that all weakness is a form of individual moral failure. “Zen fascists will control you / 100% natural / You will jog for the master race / And always wear a happy face” etc.
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I’m not familiar with “cozies,” though I think I know what you mean. It just seems important to point out that her actual beliefs are hilariously harsh. (Also that her genesis, A Course in Miracles, was co-written by a CIA guy.)
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