Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
I met a young man a couple weeks ago who said something beautiful. He said, “America is stronger than anything they can do to us.” That sentence is not just lovely prose; it’s an understanding of energy. They can destroy a government but they can’t destroy the American dream. The very idea that people should be able to say whatever they want to say, do whatever they want to do, and be whoever they want to be as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else, is our civic North Star. There’s an ideal at the core of America that democracy’s enemies cannot touch.
There is an outer America and an inner America. The outer America is the externals of our government. It’s true they’re taking a hammer to it. They want to impose a corporate dictatorship in America, and in order to do so they have to demolish the basics of our democratic government. Whether it's Curtis Yarvin, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the techno-bro crowd; or organized white supremacists; or Christian nationalists (promoting such things as repealing the 19th Amendment that grants women the right to vote!); or the Heritage Foundation touting Project 2025, such forces have a unique view of how America should operate. But let’s not kids ourselves. That view does not align with, or support, the founding principles of the United States.
Once again, as during the Civil War, a generation of Americans is called on to determine whether a nation “conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal…can long endure.”
President Trump and his henchmen can can tear up our Constitution. They can demolish our agencies. They can undermine the basic functionality of freedom and liberty in America. Those things they can do, and are doing. But they cannot touch the point of it all, because America’s deepest reality lies in another realm. America is an ideal, and if we hold that ideal close to our hearts - committing to its protection and praying for a miracle - then our nation so conceived will yet endure.
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I met a young man a couple weeks ago who said something beautiful. He said, “America is stronger than anything they can do to us.” That sentence is not just lovely prose; it’s an understanding of energy. They can destroy a government but they can’t destroy the American dream. The very idea that people should be able to say whatever they want to say, do whatever they want to do, and be whoever they want to be as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else, is our civic North Star. There’s an ideal at the core of America that democracy’s enemies cannot touch.
There is an outer America and an inner America. The outer America is the externals of our government. It’s true they’re taking a hammer to it. They want to impose a corporate dictatorship in America, and in order to do so they have to demolish the basics of our democratic government. Whether it's Curtis Yarvin, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the techno-bro crowd; or organized white supremacists; or Christian nationalists (promoting such things as repealing the 19th Amendment that grants women the right to vote!); or the Heritage Foundation touting Project 2025, such forces have a unique view of how America should operate. But let’s not kids ourselves. That view does not align with, or support, the founding principles of the United States.
Once again, as during the Civil War, a generation of Americans is called on to determine whether a nation “conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal…can long endure.”
President Trump and his henchmen can can tear up our Constitution. They can demolish our agencies. They can undermine the basic functionality of freedom and liberty in America. Those things they can do, and are doing. But they cannot touch the point of it all, because America’s deepest reality lies in another realm. America is an ideal, and if we hold that ideal close to our hearts - committing to its protection and praying for a miracle - then our nation so conceived will yet endure.
Subscribe to Marianne's Substack: MarianneWilliamson.Substack.com
Follow Marianne on Instagram: instagram.com/mariannewilliamson
Follow Marianne on Facebook: facebook.com/williamsonmarianne
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Find Marianne's Interviews on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-marianne-williamson-podcast/id1536043190
Find Marianne's Interviews on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0SogOup2lTWVkGwELXpiBM?si=20050e2c9f0442de
