Marianne Williamson

Civil Rights

Decades of civil rights history show that civil rights laws are effective in decreasing discrimination because they provide strong federal remedies targeted to specific vulnerable groups. By explicitly including sexual orientation and gender identity in these fundamental laws, LGBTQIA people will finally be afforded the exact same protections as other covered characteristics under federal law. Learn more

Criminal Justice / Public Safety

Violence is widespread in our communities. Crime and violence prevention as well as smart interventions using public health approach models that are deeply informed by any potential Adverse Childhood Experiences should be a primary focus to help our communities and families flourish. We will work to empower our communities to implement proven and promising programs and necessary infrastructure to transform the underlying conditions that cause crime, violence and abuse, and repair the trauma that so often underlies it. There will be a focus on such supports as: trauma-informed child, adolescent and adult family wrap-around service systems; domestic-violence and child abuse prevention and interruption; community outreach and interruption; police-community relations; increased access to mental health services and more. Learn more

Restorative justice is a reconciliation-focused justice process that can bring healing to victims and communities, much more so than solely punitive-minded criminal justice approaches. Restorative justice is guided by victims’ needs and allows the possibility for offenders to directly confront the human costs of their actions and make some form of amends. Ultimately, this approach to criminal reform helps everyone move forward – victims, assailants, and communities themselves. By laying the foundations for empathy, restorative justice prevents repeat offenses, and rebuilds frayed bonds, helping restore communities. Learn more

Defense / Veterans

Our veterans are some of the best and brightest citizens we have. To be willing to put their lives on the line so that the rest of us may exercise our freedom is something I am in awe of. I have a deep sense of gratitude for the women and men that serve in our armed forces. It saddens me that some Veterans don’t always have access to the best care and attention that they have earned. That’s why, if I am elected president, I will work closely with veteran advocacy groups to put forth policies that matter most to our nation’s active duty service members and veterans. Learn more

Every day, an average of 16 U.S. Veterans commit suicide. We must not stop working until every veteran and service member has access to the best mental healthcare and community support. I will direct my VA Secretary to make suicide prevention a top priority. Learn more

Drug Policy

If we are actually interested in solving drug problems, we must recognize that drug addiction is a symptom of the wider malaise in our society, and punishing people for it does nothing to address its root causes. Furthermore, every adult deserves the right to control what they put in their own body, as long as they are not harming anyone else. For a fraction of the 100 billion per year that we currently spend on the failed drug war, we could build a national network of world-class treatment and recovery services available to all at no cost. Learn more

Economy

A corporate aristocracy – from insurance and pharmaceutical companies to Big Ag to Big Food to chemical companies to gun manufacturers to Big Oil to Big Tech to defense contractors – now tyrannize this country, and the days of their overreach and entitlement must end. No one thing is going to make that happen, but a president who is willing to use the power of the executive branch to stand up to what Roosevelt called the ''economic royalists'' is a good solid beginning. And I will be that. Learn more

We must end the assault on labor. We must abolish Taft-Hartley. We must pass the PRO Act. We must build an economy that works for all of us. That will be my mission as President of the United States. Learn more

Education

Marianne believes the U.S. Must implement a ''Whole Student Educational System'' focused not only on a student’s intellectual performance and growth but also on developing a student’s cultural, emotional, and psychological well-being. She believes this is necessary to develop a complete student and one that is truly prepared to become a productive member of our society. In a time of rampant bullying and school violence, including the horrors of school shootings, we need to directly meet the needs of this moment and far more fundamental ways. Learn more

Regarding crime, education and culture are the strongest preventative medicines. A core goal of a Williamson administration will be to make every public school in America a palace of learning, culture and the arts. In addition, we will revert to free tuition at state colleges and public universities, as was true until the mid-1960’s. Learn more

Environment / Energy

A Williamson administration will support farmers and ranchers far more than we currently do. Including support for our farmers of historically underrepresented communities. Our food system has been especially hard hit by the current administration’s trade policies, as well as by the impacts of climate change. My presidency will support regenerative, sustainable agricultural practices that not only have highly profitable yields, but can also help turn the tide on climate change. Learn more

As president, I will do more than direct a mass mobilization of technological efforts necessary to stave off climate catastrophe; I will harness a mass mobilization of the American people. For that will be necessary for us to achieve the kind of buy-in necessary to allow such massive change as is needed, to occur. Learn more

Foreign Policy

Peace-building is both preferable to and less costly than war. We spend more on our military than the next nine largest militaries in the world. The United States and China spend half the 2.1 trillion global military spending, both increasing tens and billions of dollars annually. As has become evident in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, as well as against terrorist enemies like ISIS, at best our military can solve only part of the issue, leaving the true, underlying problems unaddressed. Even with these expenditures, the economic impact of violence on the global economy was nearly 14.4 trillion in 2019 – 10.5 percent of global gross domestic product (GDP), or 1,895 per person. Learn more

Government Reform

History and research prove again and again that the two most significant factors in the creation of peace, domestically or internationally, are: the economic empowerment of women and the educational empowerment of children. If I were elected president, a far more sophisticated, redesigned partnership between the Defense Department and the State Department would put our need to wage peace on equal part with our need to prepare for any necessary war. Learn more

Healthcare

Williamson’s plan for a thriving universal Whole Healthcare System actively supports health and wellness, improves care, and reduces costs by focusing on preventing illness, value and competitive pricing. Learn more

Guaranteeing healthcare is cheaper in the long run, which has been shown in study after study, including in studies conducted by the Congressional Budget Authority. In fact, while our government continues to try to privatize health services, a recent study in the respected Lancet journal showed a definitive correlation between increased privatization of the UK’s National Health Services, and increased preventable mortality. The same is true for investments in education, in public housing, in energy efficiency, in public transportation – the more we invest in what’s best for people, the better we are all served and the less burden we all carry. Learn more

Vaccines should be provided free to the public as part of a universal healthcare program. Learn more

Immigration

I support legislative reforms that include a full path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who do not have serious criminal background issues. I would also work to reduce the cost of naturalization and increase resources to help people navigate that process more easily. Furthermore, our foreign policy should seek to ensure economic stability in other countries so that people do not want to seek economic refuge in the United States. Learn more

Social Services

As Martin Luther King, Jr. Would ask a hundred years later, ''They were freed, but what were they freed to?'' It was a full hundred years after the end of the Civil War before the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964 to dismantle segregation, and only in 1965 did the Voting Rights Act insure equal access to black people at the polls.The issue of the economic gap that existed at the end of the Civil War, however, was never addressed beyond Sherman’s promise. And the gap has never been closed. I have advocated for broad scale reparations for slavery since the 1990’s, and was the first candidate in this presidential primary season to make it a pillar of my campaign. Learn more