Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
When Dwight Eisenhower was asked if the United States should have a military parade, he responded this way:
"Absolutely not. we are the pre-eminent power on Earth. For us to try and imitate what the Soviets are doing in Red Square would make us look weak.”
Our power doesn’t lie in our ability to destroy anyone or anything. Our power lies in our ability to help people live better lives. And that’s why what’s happening these days is so deeply disempowering. We’re seeing a perversion of the values that indeed did make America great.
Ah, what we could have done over the last fifty years to expand people’s opportunities, while instead we worked so steadily to diminish them. Deflecting attention onto a military parade that will cost taxpayers $25M to $45 is obscene, when the government literally took food from the mouths of hungry children because they say we waste too much money. This parade will not be a celebration of our military; it will be a celebration of our war machine. The arms manufacturers. What in DC is called “The Blob.” Those children, and our veterans, be damned.
Does it have to be this way? No. And on the other side of this twisted era, I pray that it will not be.
MarianneWilliamson.Substack.com
Produced by Mark Van Landuyt.
Thanks to Donald Goldmacher.
Subscribe to Marianne's Substack at MarianneWilliamson.Substack.com
When Dwight Eisenhower was asked if the United States should have a military parade, he responded this way:
"Absolutely not. we are the pre-eminent power on Earth. For us to try and imitate what the Soviets are doing in Red Square would make us look weak.”
Our power doesn’t lie in our ability to destroy anyone or anything. Our power lies in our ability to help people live better lives. And that’s why what’s happening these days is so deeply disempowering. We’re seeing a perversion of the values that indeed did make America great.
Ah, what we could have done over the last fifty years to expand people’s opportunities, while instead we worked so steadily to diminish them. Deflecting attention onto a military parade that will cost taxpayers $25M to $45 is obscene, when the government literally took food from the mouths of hungry children because they say we waste too much money. This parade will not be a celebration of our military; it will be a celebration of our war machine. The arms manufacturers. What in DC is called “The Blob.” Those children, and our veterans, be damned.
Does it have to be this way? No. And on the other side of this twisted era, I pray that it will not be.
MarianneWilliamson.Substack.com
Produced by Mark Van Landuyt.
Thanks to Donald Goldmacher.
Subscribe to Marianne's Substack at MarianneWilliamson.Substack.com
