Marianne Williamson Has Some Interesting Positions on Health
Politics

Marianne Williamson was the ultimate meme fodder after night two of the Democratic debates, her new age-y ethos and theatrical speaking voice standing out in the sea of suits on the stage. The self-help author, spiritual leader, and activist was the top-searched 2020 candidate of the night, but it’s unclear whether the interest was because her opposition to endless war was inspiring or because everyone just wanted to know what all the healing crystals tweets were about.
Williamson is by far the most unconventional contender in the race for the White House. She most definitely owns a book about fluoride. But some of her politics are actually a refreshing addition to the election cycle: She’s a strong advocate for reducing child poverty in America, reducing our military presence abroad, and allocating reparations for descendants of slaves.
Here’s what she said during a CNN town hall in April:
You know, we don’t adequately fight — we don’t adequately fight climate change because of profits for fossil fuel companies. We don’t have universal health care because of short-term profits for health insurance companies and big pharma. We don’t have wage peace as much as we wage war because of short-term profits for defense contractors. And we don’t have commonsense gun safety legislation because, God forbid, it should cut into the short-term profits of gun manufacturers. That is immoral.
These are the types of positions those on the left can get behind. But once you delve into Williamson’s stances on science, medicine, and health, the glow of an eccentric but harmless woman who you might do an angel card reading with starts to dim.
Here’s a roundup of some of Williamson’s more controversial beliefs in the realm of health and science:
On vaccines:
Williamson recently courted controversy after a campaign event where she compared mandatory vaccines to the struggle for bodily autonomy in the abortion fight. She said, “The U.S. government doesn’t tell any citizen, in my book, what they have to do with their body or their child.”
She attempted to backtrack on Twitter:
When asked to explain her vaccine skeptic stance on The View, Williamson insisted that she’s not against mandatory vaccines, but her disdain for Big Pharma clouds whatever trust she may have toward vaccinations:
[America has a] revolving door policy by which big pharma, the CDC, and the FDA are so cozy so that millions of Americans who are not anti-science and are not anti-vaccine have some deep concern. The days of blind faith in big pharma are over. The days of blind faith in the idea that our government agencies do the proper oversight, the proper advocacy for the American people against at times the overreach of profit-making industries that are putting money before people… that is not an irrational or unreasonable thing. […]
She later added the following affirmation: