A former presidential candidate known for her eccentricities on the campaign trail accused the Democratic Party of allying with “the corporate media” to direct news cycles and voting trends.
On Wednesday, New York Times bestselling author and 2020 Democratic dropout Marianne Williamson tweeted that party officials and the press have created a “political-media-industrial complex” that fights against the true will of voters.
“Corporatization of the Dem party isn’t just a function of party operatives; it’s just as much a function of the corporate media that partners with them,” Williamson wrote. “A political-media-industrial complex. But we shouldn’t just abandon the party; I think we should hang around to be inconvenient.”
Corporatization of the Dem party isn’t just a function of party operatives; it’s just as much a function of the corporate media that partners with them. A political-media-industrial complex. But we shouldn’t just abandon the party; I think we should hang around to be inconvenient
— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) May 6, 2020
Williamson ran an outsider campaign that called for the creation of a Department of Peace and reparations for slavery, among other ideas not normally adopted by mainstream candidates.
The former candidate has been critical of the Democratic Party’s reluctance to overturn “the fundamental corporatist paradigm that now dominates our system.” In September, she said that “the Democratic Party is in a state of denial” regarding its prospects of defeating President Trump in 2020. Williamson endorsed then-candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders in February after she dropped out of the race.
