Monday, October 29, 2018

Women Today, Around the World Part 2


Around the globe today we have women in power, some doing a wonderful job and eithers, not so much.  Angela Merkel of Germany is widely described as the most powerful woman in the world, Chancellor of Germany since 2005 and the de facto leader of the European Union.  Aung San Suu Kyi is the State Counsellor (akin to Prime Minister) of Myanmar (Burma), a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who has fallen in world esteem since the genocide of the Rohinga in that country as well as the persecution of journalists. Her style of leadership has been described as imperious and "distracted and out of touch". A very sad fall from grace. 
Current or past leaders include Helle Thorning-Schmidt  of Denmark, Therese May of the United Kingdom, Christina Fernandez de Kirchner of Argentina, Julia Gillard of Australia, Tarja Halonen of Finland, Dilma Rousseff of Brazil and the list goes on.  The question arises again, why are women able to become leaders in other countries but not in “the greatest country in the world”? I repeat myself with the answer “religion”. Whether Americans want to accept the answer or not is up to them but my personal analysis is simply that Americans are encumbered with the veil of religious patriarchy regardless of whether they are personally religious or not.
Americans cling to their Constitution like an anchor and despite amendments (or because of amendments) the said Constitution is holding them back from evolving into a First World country. They are deluding themselves when they believe they are the greatest country in the world. The best countries in the world do not require guns to protect themselves from their neighbours; that is what a police force is for. The best countries in the world allow their women to govern their own bodies and reproductive agenda. The best countries in the world do not accept capital punishment as the best way to curb crime; in the United States they still have the highest crime rate of any country in the “western world” so the philosophy of capital punishment curbing crime is impossible to believe. The best countries in the world do not accept torture and yet the United States have Guantanamo Bay where washer-boarding is still being conducted as a means of interrogation and torture.
The United States has more churches per capita than any other country in the world and yet they do not evince much evidence of holding to the true principles of Jesus’s Golden Rule “do unto others as you would have them do unto you”.
“We must open the doors and see to it that the doors remain open so others may pass through them” Rosemary Brown

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