What Do You Think the Youth of America Need?

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I suggest that we put humanitarian principles before economic principles. These are actually more radical ideas than you might think when putting the practice. And also the original idea at the core of our Declaration of Independence, all men who created equal with God given inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That was radical in 1776 and it's radical today. So people say her ideas are radical and they're simply ideas that align with our own first principles. Then I certainly don't apologize for that.

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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