TRANSFORM w/ Marianne Williamson

11/16/2025

It’s hard to overstate the lack of moral clarity in almost every corner of American politics today. People’s attention seems limited to their particular silos. And if a situation arises that doesn’t fit into one, then no matter how dangerous it is it can slip by almost unnoticed. The prospect of massive death and destruction just a few miles from the United States, instigated by reckless sociopaths who never in a million years would send their own children to die in this mess, is currently being met with a huge ho hum.

One of the issues, of course, is that America’s war machine proffers a myth, disproven repeatedly from Vietnam to Iraq, that “we’ll just go in and clean things up. It will be quick.” People are lulled into believing, once again, that America’s military dominance is to be unquestioned. Note to all thinking people: We did not “win” in Vietnam. Nor did we “win” in Iraq. If anything, we spread devastation and ruin on a massive scale that in retrospect was for nothing. Such military misadventures have been ethical, military and political failures, recognized ultimately as exactly that yet met with no more official remorse than “Oops, yeah maybe we shouldn’t have done that.” And even that’s a cover, see. To the multi-trillion dollar interests that back America’s war machine, what we’ve done – and what we plan to do – spells nothing but profitability.

God help us when our karma comes due.

We are sleepwalking into a situation that could erupt into an extraordinary horror, and Pete Hegseth leading the charge makes the situation that much more perilous. It’s extremely disappointing to see how Secretary of State Marco Rubio lost his soul along the way. And President Trump’s command of the U.S. armed forces looks ever more like a brain-addled king telling full force military personnel to go anywhere and everywhere, depending on what suits him on any given day.