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Why the next President of the United States should be a woman

Because we need to move away from the single world perspective that has prevailed in this country since its founding as well as most of the rest of the world. The dominant male view has given us endless wars, accumulation of weapons of mass destruction, the torture of nature, and the trashing of the planet in general. Perhaps somehow connected to poor toilet training and disgusting table manners as children. Taming the feline instinct in human relationships has yet to achieve a balance without the intervention and dual perspective of the female counterpart.

Aristotle passed on to us logic and reasoning as the tools to solve many of the frictions in the body politic. Rene Descartes explained to us the universe and thus the meaning of life in terms of equation that could be manipulated to measure and understand the world. Then came Isaac Newton, to explain the rules of the universe with laws of celestial motion and gravity with a vision of a giant machine with millions of moving parts that follow predictable patterns of behavior. These discoveries provided us with explanations about the heavens that gave us as a species great security and the assurance that we were capable of solving all of our human problems. Superstition and witchery were abandoned and the authority of the church was challenge, which on the other hand also open the door to the questioning of religious beliefs that controlled the masses.
SkodowskaCurie better kwon as Madam Curie, was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry by the discovery of the element radium and polonium. Her studies of radioactive materials open the door to the nuclear age. However meritorious her contribution to science was it did not upset the fruit cart of male dominance in the body politic.
Males have been running the planet, as there was no tomorrow, especially, in this country where the prevailing philosophy has been what is good for General Motors is good for America. This view has resulted in the abuse of 40 percent of the world resources and the near depletion of our fossil fuels. Moreover, the extensive use and abuse of these resources is the main cause of planetary contamination and global warming.
New advances is science have mainly been going to spy satellites, weaponry and the vision of a next war that is to take place in the stars using laser technology.
The current political contest is not about gender or race is about

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