When you think about this past year, with Donald Trump, President (it still depresses me), you have to recognize and accept that it's all become, yes, in fact, Donald Trump vs everyone else, vs all others, groups, individuals, everything and everybody. Really. Think about it.
During the campaign last year and even after, it was him vs even what was supposed to be his own political party:
Now, today, of course, Mr. Trump and his representative at the United Nations are all going after any and all other nations that vote in that body against his bone-headed idea of making Jerusalem the capitol city of Israel.
I'm telling you, it is this man, this President (shudder) and his political party are both, all against the rest of the world. If you're not already wealthy and/or a corporation, you are not on his side, their side. He's against you. They're against you.
I proposed/asked this earlier tonight out on Facebonkers:
Can you imagine how different, how likely radically different our country would be, our legislation, our laws, if 50 percent of our government legislators were women?
Honestly, we should have this conversation. A national conversation.
I'd love to hear it, first of all, and then I'd like to hear it at least locally and then go nationally.
On the issues of health care and child care and schools and, heck, war and our war machine?
And then there's equal pay for equal work, along with really an untold list of what would be different and changed.
Can you imagine how different even the legislative conversations would be, let alone the results of their legislation
I'm no fool on this. I don't for a minute think we'd hit some Nirvana.
I just think we would be a radically different society and nation. Our government would be radically different and so, our nation would, as well.
Scotland is ahead of us on this. They even have an organized group, pushing for 50% of their representatives to be female.
There are more people out there in the world, proposing this idea, this framework and working on and for and toward it than I knew, before today. Here's another example.
How insane is it that we're still so horribly unequal, that there is still so much gross inequality, not just in the world but here in the US in the 21st Century? We agreed the part about "All men...created equal" meant men and women long ago, I think most of us agree.
Imagine.
I'd love to hear at least one show, one full hour out on KCUR, maybe on Steve Kraske's show.
It would be perfect for that station, him and his program.
I had some time away from the office today and had to run some errands. One of those errands took me to the Target store at Ward Parkway Mall. Those pesky vacuum cleaner bags, you know?
I pulled into the parking lot and, before getting parked, noticed a Kansas City, Missouri police department squad car, parked there but far out in the lot. It seemed odd. I never see that.
I got inside, of course, only to see an officer. "Ah, that's the one who parked there", I thought.
Then I saw another officer.
And another.
And sure, it's the holidays but the store seemed unusually busy for the middle of the week and middle of the day.
Pretty soon, I noticed there were police--and families with them, it seemed--all over the place.
I stopped this one young officer and asked him what was up.
He said that, yes, the KCPD did this, every year, I guess. Today there were going to be 152 kids go through with them, shopping, today alone. They call it their "Shop With a Cop" program, you guessed it, for the holidays.
I congratulated and thanked him and a few of the other officers there.
What a fantastic program. Seems Target sponsors it.
Seems it's quite the national program. Lee's Summit does it, as does Parkville and Prairie Village, on the Kansas Side and lots of other cities and towns in the area. Unknown to me, it's been going on for years. This video, from KMBC News, is from 2014.
So kudos, KCPD, and to you, too, Target and really, all of Kansas City.
What a great thing. What a great, even beautiful thing to do.
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