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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