Publisher's Synopsis
There is no doubt that discontentment is a world-wide problem. People are looking around trying to find a way to fix it. As they get more disgruntled, people tend to act more from a gut reaction than from a planned method to solve their problems. It has been happening at an alarming rate all over the world, with 2016 appearing to be a tipping point. One example of this is the Brexit. The end of the first half of 2016 gave the world a look into what a disgruntled group of people is capable of doing - something that is entirely self-detrimental. Logic and reason said that leaving the EU would be one of the greatest mistakes that the UK could make. Analysts, political junkies, and economists largely agreed that there was no way it would happen. The day after the vote, the world woke up to an economic meltdown as the UK proved that it was able to ignore facts and logic and basically shoot itself in the foot to spite everyone else. People said that they voted for the Brexit precisely because they thought the proposal wouldn't succeed. Now Scotland is seriously considering leaving the UK because one of the few reasons that they remained a part of the UK in 2014 was because of how long the process would be to rejoin the EU as a new country. The Pound has seen a most serious decline in value, reaching a low that dwarfs the problems after the financial crisis. The problem is that people did not bother to understand what it was they were voting for before it happened. And now they are feeling a significant sense of voters' remorse. The outlook for the future is entirely uncertain. The UK isn't the only nation with this problem, but it is the one that most directly correlates to a huge problem in the US right now - the rise of Trump. As the UK begins to feel the full weight of their massive mistake (and the EU considers dropping English as its language), the US has a rare chance to really see the detrimental effects of trying to be subversive or blindly acting without researching, thinking, or even paying attention. The US can see all of this without having to make a similar mistake themselves. In the event that Trump is elected to the Presidency, the US will again prove that any mistake our parent country can make, we can make 10 times worse. The problem is that there are already far too many problems for Americans to be able to afford such an obvious and unprecedented mistake. The problem isn't that we need to wake up. It's that we need to use our brains instead of just blindly reacting or trying to "stick it to the man." People like to think that Trump is doing the honest thing and being politically incorrect. Well, yes he certainly is being politically incorrect, but not in a way that is refreshing. His words are everything that minorities and women have been fighting against literally for centuries. It's not subversive, it's perverse. Nor does he care about making things better for anyone else unless there is something to gain from it himself. Since when does a person saying they have the best anything mean that they do? People are taking Trump at his word, fully knowing that he doesn't mean it. And that is precisely where the problems lies? They hear the horrible things and think he won't actually do them. How does that make him less like the politicians that people have come to distrust? His rhetoric is incredibly dangerous, and there is no guarantee that he won't try to go through with any of it. Pay attention to the words themselves. There is nothing noble, honest, refreshing, or acceptable about nearly anything he says. We are the ones who are going to suffer for such a terrible decision. And the rest of the world is not going to make it any easier for us to bear the burden of such a colossal mistake.
