Comparison of Top Presidential Candidates on Use of Their Power of Word for a World that Works for Everyone

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This is Part 6 of a multi-part series examining how we use the Power of the Word in politics, particularly in the 2020 presidential race.  Rev. Sara S. Nichols is senior minister at the Center for Spiritual Living, Davis and the Spiritual Director of All is Well Institute which supports and teaches people how to heal themselves using spiritual tools.  Trained as an attorney, before coming to spiritual science, she was a legislative and communications advocate for Medicare for All and other consumer issues in Congress and the California legislature.

Part 1 -- What exactly is the Power of the Word and How does it Work in Politics?

Part 2 -- Donald Trump and the Power of the Word

Part 3 -- Bernie Sanders and the Power of the Word
Part 4 --Marianne Williamson and the Power of the Word

Part 5 --Pete Buttigieg and the Power of the Word

In this series, we confine ourselves primarily to the question of how effectively does the candidate work with the power of their word.  In other words, given how they marshall universal law to their favor through the power of the word, how much do they appear to be grounded in a vision of a world that works for everyone, how likely are they to win, and when they assume the White House, what are they likely to accomplish?

My assumption is that every Democratic challenger for president shares most of the same policy positions (affordable universal health care and education, pro civil rights, combat climate change, raise the minimum wage, pro gun control).  There are plenty of other writers out there that will spend their time evaluating the nuances of where Democratic candidates for president are on these issues. And most news forums will spend their time looking at the experience, the demographics and the charisma of the candidates, all of which play a role in whether they will win.

Here are my rankings of the candidates I've thought closely about (not all of whom I've written a whole post about and all of whom I reserve the right to change my mind about ). The 4 charts below are incorporated in the chart at the top. Obviously this is completely nonscientific and just my own subjective analysis. But I wanted to give my relative rankings so that you could see how they stack up on what I care about.

See text above for detail--this is basically the degree of confidence candidates have for making things happen with their word, regardless of apparent limitations or conditions.  The incumbent president is VERY good at this and so to win, we need someone who also consciously uses their word.

What is being evaluated here is the degree to which candidates speak as if they are here to create or reveal a word that includes and works for every person, regardless of who they are