A Rambling Mama

I really wish the world would realize that when we "go it alone," we get ourselves into giant messes. Our civilization has advanced itself so far that we are capable of destroying our species and our home at the flick of a switch. There are lessons to be learned from history. The beginning of the Twentieth century saw advancements like nothing else before or as quickly in any period in our history, and in the same number of years, we came as close to destroying ourselves as we ever have. Do you know what changed? Great leaders like Winston Churchill united us under banners as the European Union and the United Nations, and many others. These assemblies, partnerships really, brought a connectivity between nations, allowing communication to flow freely under the bedrock of democratic ideals. These organizations strengthened crippled nations, united themselves against outside threats, but most importantly protected themselves from each other. No one would dare pick a fight with...

Brexit       Perhaps if we had talked about the purpose and the important history of the European Union before the political bodies began campaigning on empty promises, taglines, and the quick whims of modern rhetoric many of us would not be shaking our heads at the United Kingdom. Across the pond, many of us are again smacking our foreheads as the ill-informed population of our country begins to rally and jump on the bandwagon to this momentously stupid decision made by the majority of voters in the United Kingdom and our front runner to the GOP Presidential bid begins to politicize stupid once again.       The purpose of the European Union was not to make a singular state, but to save the people of Europe and indeed the world from yet another World War that had occurred twice in less than half a century to a population of individuals who had mastered weaponry to the point that it indeed threatened the survival of our species. The European Union was a m...