Progress needed

Re: U.S. focuses on treatment of women — Oct. 14

Throughout history, people appear on the world stage in the most basic functions, from trades people to rocket scientists, philanthropists, politicians, doctors — all making a contribution. Indeed, everyone is interacting in what may be seen to the exigencies and needs of the times we live in whose outcomes ultimately lead to the betterment of the world.

At least that is how progress is seen down through the ages. So today in American politics one candidate vying to preside over the most powerful nation on Earth as its president is seen in

effect as demeaning the role of women. On the other hand, the other candidate is seen as being untrustworthy to hold that office.

Somehow many questions inescapably abound as to how that will play out leading to better ends for that nation. Do such players on the world stage, as William Shakespeare would muse, have a part to play to those ends? Or is it not perhaps better understood in a larger lens that more than the players themselves are the needs and requirements of the times we live in that hunger for change and better things?

In this case, to elevate at minimum, a very tired, tattered and worn, battered and bruised American political system from schoolyard brawls in its political campaigns and for a needed boost for the status of women?

If not even more for there to emerge a stronger America in all of its governing institutions and for women to accede to the long overdue need for being necessary co-partners with men for the very advancement of organized life on this planet.

Indeed, there are so many things like climate change and removal of prejudice and poverty and imbalances of every kind that retards progress. The premise is that more than the players themselves that are converging, are the very needs impelling to make this planet a better place to live. Even despite the pain in progressing to those coveted ends. Claude McDonald Kitchener