The Elected Branch    
   Part 3 of 3

   Women excel in many occupations. Then there are those who rise by convincing people to vote for them, like men in the political world.  

   By the 1970s, women were becoming political actors. 

   In 1980 for the first time, women voted in greater numbers than men, and began to form blocs of political power. Just 56 women have served in the U.S. Senate, and 358 in the House, all time. 

   Today, a record 131 women are serving in Congress, one of them House speaker, and five have announced plans to run for president in 2020. Mrs. Clinton was the first to win her party's nomination.

   So, what do we at Views By the Sea see in all this?

   Women built the bombers and fighter planes that helped win WWII. Now they're flying Navy jets and going into space. 

   Women excel in science and engineering, in business, the military, national security, high tech and many other occupations.

   That said, there is more to our culture and national well being than personal achievement. At what cost do we cheer success for individuals, while we struggle in relationships and other issues of community? 

   If political women can make America - or even government itself - more honest, moral, etc., let them assume leadership. But, we don't see it. As with men, consider the individual. 
 

   There is Eve: She saw. She desired. She took.

   But Mary: "I am the Lord's servant. May it be to me as you have said." 

   Go take the White House, ladies. When you get there, it will be a crowning achievement after two centuries of women's suffrage. Nothing more. 

      Jimmy