Magick Ritual Planned Tonight in Portland to "Raise the Energy" for Bernie Sanders

"We will be focusing our energy in manifesting our intentions." United States Congress via Wikimedia Commons

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This is a real Bernie Sanders campaign event description:

Clearly you're feeling the Bern. Maybe you're a Wiccan? Pagan? Goddess worshiper? Heathen? Druid? Spiritual but not religious? Secular Jew? Spiritually open minded? Unafiliated? Athiest [sic] who likes ritual? Other? And you would like to engage with a community of like minded individuals to raise the energy of the Bernie Sanders vibration to a higher frequency and ultimately change the world for our children, grandchildren, and all future generations. I hear you! Please meet me at Woodstock Park (in the open area near SE 47th and Steele) for a Ritual for Bernie. We will be focusing our energy in manifesting our intentions for the most positive, most beneficial, most heartful outcome to the upcoming primary and national election cycle. Please bring a donation of canned goods for the Oregon Food Bank and a beverage and/or snack to share after the event. Please also wear your Bernie gear! I look forward to sharing space and making magick with you!

You can attend this real event tonight at Woodstock Park. Nineteen people have already RSVPed.

I... question the efficacy of energy work as a tool for influencing the outcome of an election—especially if you skip ACTUALLY VOTING, which I consider to be a sacred ritual. At the very least, though, this sounds like a perfectly nice benefit for the Oregon Food Bank. You should definitely go, and tell me what it was like. Our own Doug Brown will be attending tonight. He's promised to take pictures.

Now, I'm not here to make fun of anyone's hobbies (if you need evidence, I attended this event and genuinely enjoyed it, and I personally like Bernie fine), but I do find it interesting that there's a witchy ritual on the docket for Bernie Sanders, while over on Twitter, one of the most popular epithets lobbed at Hillary Clinton is, you know, that she's a witch.