INITIAL DIAGNOSIS AND PATIENT PLAN OF CARE FOR THE FOUNDING MOTHERS
America’s lack of clear direction can be traced to the beginning.
There were no Founding Mothers. Only Fathers.
And then a prototype emerged. Her name was Sacagawea.
The Corps of Discovery’s 18-month journey was prompted by a big idea. The United States had recently doubled its size with The Louisiana Purchase. No one really knew what was in the package that the French had sold to the young nation. Lewis & Clark were to report to President Thomas Jefferson what they discovered.
Sacagawea’s skills as a translator and her knowledge of difficult terrain were invaluable. Probably most important was her calming presence on both the Lewis and Clark crew and the Native Americans they encountered who might otherwise have been hostile to the strangers. Sacagawea all the while was caring for her son, born just two months before departing on the very rough excursion. www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/sacagawea
My prescription to cure America’s current multiple personality disorder will be called Sacagawea.
It will be a plan written and overseen by a new kind of organization titled, “The Founding Mothers.”
In hi-tech terms, they will write the code and oversee the implementation. This is not a feminist vision, it is a practical vision (see point 4 below).
BACKGROUND: The developers of the America 1.0 were The Founding Fathers. Their product has been tested and it more or less worked. But, in medical terms, its body is aging. The skeleton, or framework, is more brittle. Communications between the brain and the heart have seriously deteriorated. “Things” just aren’t like the good old days.
It will take a different skill set to guide America through the turbulent terrain ahead. There needs to be a calming and creative leadership presence. There is an urgent need to develop partnerships with the warring tribes inside the American body and among the increasingly dangerous territories of the world. America needs the guidance of wise and stern mothers. The United States and the world need modern day Sacagaweas.
In medical and psychological terms, the Founding Mothers plan of care will be designed to pull the county’s head-butting tribes out of their mutual depressions. They will be women who see the nation and the world’s problems not as single issues but tightly interwoven. People who have vast resources and understand how to implement big ideas. People who can focus on the future and use the best of the past.
The initial Founding Mothers board of directors will be women with immense non-governmental resources behind them, but understand the possible roles of government in an ever more complicated world.
Here is a beginning.
Find one prominent woman executive who will convince three other women with vast resources to form the precursor to The Founding Mothers.
She may be Ursula M. Burns, Chairman and CEO of Xerox; Melinda Gates, Gates Foundation; Lynsi Snyder, In-n-Out Burger CEO; Rebecca M. Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin (or another female university CEO); Mary Barra, General Motors CEO, Condoleezza Rice, a person of general/admiral rank, or Gabriella Franco Parcella, CEO Mellon Capital. The list of possibilities is almost endless.
Each of the three or four Founding Mothers will task their organizations to create plans for the most logical and doable programs to handle North America’s gut wrenching current and impending crises, all of which seem to be interconnected.
Startup funding will come from the board member’s organizations and non-political foundations.
Bring in the men as appropriate.
To be continued.
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If you think the above has the seed of a good idea, pass it along.
If not, just pass on it.
George Kroloff, September 23, 2019
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