History Tells Us What Will Happen Next With Brexit And Trump

[orleans]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tobias-stone/history-tells-us-what-will-brexit-trump_b_11179774.html

[randome]

1. Wow.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[rzemanfl]

2. I wrote my M.A. thesis over 24 years ago at the advanced age of 45.

I quoted someone who said roughly this, "History, when it is being made, just seems like one damn thing after another." I am too lazy to dig out the hard copy and the digital version is in Word Perfect 5.1 on a floppy I haven't a drive for, so I can't be sure the quote is accurate or credit the source.

One damn thing after another....

[BadGimp]

3. Right wing parties related to greedy corporations are the reason this world is doomed.

..a quote from one of the many many comments on the original Medium post.

A great piece btw - thx for posting it Orleans!

[TreasonousBastard]

4. I've been fascinated by how WWII brought Europe to its first...

actual peace. The first unity since the Romans, which wasn't really unity, but subjugation. And unstable without a Roman presence.

Borders fell, old enmities were forgotten, a common currency and it looked like the future could have been the United States of Europe.

But, I wondered if it could last, and for how long? As I feared, human nature fucked it up again. And this time we have nukes all over the place.

So, what tiny little brick will fall out of place this time and start the chain reaction?

[marked50]

5. Loved this analysis

The only thing that gives me great angst is that in time past the carnage was not final. Today, with nuclear weapons, it will be complete. The evolution of Mankind's reasoning has not kept up with it's path to destruction.

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. This is extremely important for everyone to read. And I tend to agree.

[kentuck]

7. Very interesting.

We are entering one of those cycles where we punish ourselves with something we could have and should have prevented.

[Lifelong Protester]

8. K & R

A good article-worth the read, everyone!!

[moondust]

9. The center won't hold.

Given the inexperience, naivete, malignant narcissism, and bold rejection of fact-based reality, I expect some things will start flying apart fairly soon. No telling if they can or will be contained.

[smirkymonkey]

10. K&R

Well worth reading!

[Buns_of_Fire]

11. Excellent article. It makes you wonder what our Archduke Ferdinand moment

will be (as I was thinking about the assassination of the Russian ambassador) -- or will Mother Nature preempt our squabbles and make it all moot?