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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Jul 6, 2019, 07:57 AM Jul 2019

Williamson warns US elections could become more like Iran's


yesterday

DOVER, N.H. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson on Friday warned that American elections could become more like voting in countries like Iran.

Speaking at a campaign event in Dover, New Hampshire, the author described an “illusion of choice,” and criticized the “political media elite establishment. It’s a corporate establishment.”

“And they will not only tell us what we’re supposed to talk about,” she said. “They will tell us who we’re supposed to choose to even choose between in terms of voting.”

Williamson added: “It’s kind of like countries like Iran, where you can vote for whoever you want, among the people that they tell you it’s OK to vote for. And that’s the kind of country that we’re living in today.”

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The AP an outstanding example of serving wealthy Hortensis Jul 2019 #1
 

Hortensis

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1. The AP an outstanding example of serving wealthy
Sat Jul 6, 2019, 08:23 AM
Jul 2019

interests. They were actively complicit in 2016, blanketing the nation with corporate spin, Disinformation and even out right lies, and will be again.

I wish, though, that she had pointed out that Americans do have real choices still. What they are trying to hide includes that the Democratic Party will destroy them once again if they don’t stop us. We did it before, we will do it again. They know that, even if media on the Anti-Democrat left as well as the right, are trying to keep the electorate from realizing it.

“We can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few or we can have democracy, but we can’t have both.” Nancy Pelosi, quoting someone speaking at a time of similar great peril almost 100 years ago, in her speech at the opening of Congress 2019.

That statement alone should have been big news, but the media Williamson is describing suppressed it. Silence.

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