listen: i'll take new age woo over jihad & sharia any day. marianne willamson is not as scary as keith ellison is. it's just a difference of scale.

but, it's at best a step sideways and at worst a massive step backwards to start bringing the kind of language she uses into the discussion.

if she could learn how to rephrase her terms, and what the appropriate socialist concept is for each of the concepts she tries to present, then she might be the ideal candidate. and, in that sense, i can hope that she's the future of the american left.

but, the future of america cannot be in what marx called utopian socialism. thoreau was not a prophet, but a fool. utopian socialism will just lead us back to fundamentalism. and, i'm not getting on a one-way trip to gilead via iran.

she's still scary, and i might have even said that first. but, if she's not interested in learning how to convert her language away from the discourse of spiritualism and into the language of marxism, somebody else should be studying how she's doing this, and step in front of her and do it instead.