Trump wrong solution to complex problems we face

Simple answers applied to complex questions have always plummeted nations into disaster, and now it's happening again.

Great Britain has naively concluded that exiting the European Union will solve all their financial problems and struggles with emigration to make them a free, strong and powerful nation.

However, since they are breaking a 43-year-old agreement (to work with 24 other nations) to now go it alone, they have only made themselves isolated, weak and and less powerful.

We seek simple answers to everything. We seek simple answers to things like the vast wealth of the rich amidst the stalled paychecks of everyone else, the maze of wars in the Middle East (now complicated by ISIS), and outmoded emigration policies. To find simple answers, the Republican right has produced a loud, boisterous, unqualified, mean candidate running for president who campaigns like a burgeoning dictator. He constantly shouts out shallow, biased solutions to complex problems without ever mentioning how he's going to accomplish anything.

His supporters gamble the future of their country on a childish rebellion. I believe both of of these things, Trump and Brexit, come from a radical, irrational rebellion against their establishment and its leaders without any thought of the real consequences.

We have seen this before in France after their revolution, and in Germany and Italy after World War I. In these instances, insane dictators were put into power to destroy their own countries and much of the world.

I think it has similarities to rebellious teenagers, who rebel against their parents and the demands of adulthood because they're frustrated and afraid.

I wish we could see that we are interconnected to all other people and species on this amazing planet, and we must get along and work with them to accomplish anything. Unless we can get away from searching for simple answers to complex questions, our future will be bleak and our ignorance will continue to breed more violence, war and poverty.

The writer lives in Murrells Inlet.

This story was originally published July 15, 2016 at 9:43 AM with the headline "Trump wrong solution to complex problems we face."