The Body Politics of the United States

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We have to ask, why are so many people having such a hard time simply making it through the day in this country? We need to look not just at how to pay for health care, and I certainly am for universal health care. Telling the truth itself has an ameliorative effect. The people have lost faith in what the government has to say. Same with the media. What has happened in the United States is that there's this conglomeratization of corporate media which does more to serve the corporate agenda of its owners than to serve the real purpose of journalism.

Marianne Williamson, the bestselling self-help author and former Democratic primary candidate, is back in the race to become US President. She is due to announce officially tomorrow, which will make her the first Democrat to put their name in the ring for 2024, before even Joe Biden. In 2020, Williamson (a total political unknown at the time) vied for the progressive vote, but lost out to the better-known Senator Bernie Sanders. Yet since then she has grown a loyal following of young voters who call themselves the ‘Orb Gang’ in reference to her New Age spiritualism. Can a new generation of American voters take her to the White House? UnHerd's Flo Read spoke to her from the UnHerd studio to find out.

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