Taking Control

THE DAY AFTER TRUMP was sworn in, millions of women held marches in cities across the country and around the world. The biggest was in Washington D.C. Whether they were protesting something, advocating something, or sending a message was not entirely clear, but they seemed to be protesting Trump's election and his treatment of women, advocating for gender equality, and sending the message that they intended henceforth to become more politically active. One year later, they repeated the event, with two million American participating, and with surprisingly little mainstream media coverage. Perhaps, the second time around, a two million member march was old news, but most certainly, it was not fake news. The liberal mainstream media seems to have taken a day off. Of our five hundred and thirty five national legislators, only twenty percent are women, among the lowest percentages of any legislative body in the world. For decades American women have been subjected in large numbers to domestic violence, sexual abuse, and pay discrimination, among other inequalities. The election of Donald J. Trump, a self proclaimed sexual predator, has energized America's women, and they are now ruing for political office in numbers never before seen. American women, like America's minorities and America's working poor, have the power, should they chose to use it, ring about social changes which would lead to racial, gender, and economic equality. Try as they might to resist and roll back the forces of change, the conservative, traditional republican party will not be able to stop progressive change, because a majority of Americans support progressive rather than traditional policies. The cow, as it were, is out of the barn. The next step is for the cow to assume control of the farm.