Comments by "Aaron Carson" (@aaroncarson1770) on "GBH News"
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Thank you for this important conversation. In 2019 Marianne asked her supporters to donate to Mike Gravel, she did an online convivial conversation with competitor Andrew Yang, and they became friends and read each other's books. She gave over twenty honourable mentions to Tulsi Gabbard, and was the only candidate, apart from Deblasio, to endorse Bernie Sanders. In 2016, she harnessed the power of Sister Giant to help to launch Bernie's campaign. She co-founded the Peace Alliance, and recently received an award from the P.E.A.C.E. department along with Dr. Cornel West. In the eighties she founded Project Angel food to feed homebound AIDS patients, and often took care of them with her own hands, changing diapers, and feeding them while they threw up on her. Remember this was a time, when people didn't know how the virus was transmitted.
For the past four years, she has been sharing her platform with down ballot candidates, state by state. Those interviews are a civics lesson unto themselves.
She is an incredible public speaker, often inspiring crowds to surge to their feet, and roar.
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@claudelebel49 Actually, out of all the democratic candidates I think Marianne is the only one who has something in common with Trump. His one good quality, which is his ability to work a crowd. Where he appeals to the more selfish and fearful side of us, Marianne Speaks to our dreams and aspirations, but both use emotional signalling.
I think Tulsi is probably the most practical candidate, and Bernie is already legendary, but they're both trying to solve an emotional problem with reason. Bernie, Tulsi and Yang all have enough honour to run the country, but so far, I think Marianne is the only one with the charismatic fire to destroy Trump. Also she's a woman. I think a female opponent unsettles him more. Especially one like Marianne who will not necessarily argue in the customary manner.
Yang thinks Trump won because of economic despair. I love Yang, but I don't agree. I think he won because he's orange, he's entertaining, and he's audacious. He physically looks like a mascot for a fast food restaurant and says whatever's on his mind.
The American spirit IS audacious. It can take you to the moon, and it can put kids in cages. When Trump says "let's make America great again!" It speaks to the courageous, rebellious American spirit.
When Marianne says "We need to fall in love again." It also does. She knows how to grand strand.
We have lofty notions of how voters vote. "Vote on the issues, not the candidates" but do we? Billions of dollars are spent on advertising campaigns to brain wash us into buying certain products. It's not even important for them to make the most attractive looking commercial, simply the most memorable.
We fry our brains, daily with media, whenever we're not working, and with no downtime or reflection, expect to retain autonomy of thought.
Trump is an imbecile but he's smart in one respect. He knows the value of exposure, and he knows how business in the good old boy's club works.
Marianne, as she has said herself, knows how a sociopath works, and that might be just the thing.
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