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Fourth Turning - Social & Cultural Distress Dividing The Nation
Submitted by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,
I wrote the first three parts of this article back in September and planned to finish it in early October, but life intervened and truthfully I don’t think I was ready to confront how bad things will likely get as this Fourth Turning moves into the violent, chaotic war stage just over the horizon.
The developments in the Middle East, Europe, U.S., China and across the globe in the last months have confirmed my belief war drums are beating louder, global war beckons, and much bloodshed will be the result. Fourth Turnings proceed at their own pace within the 20 to 25 year crisis framework, but there is one guarantee – they never de-intensify as they progress. Just as Winter gets colder, stormier and more bitter as you proceed from December through February, Fourth Turnings get nastier, grimmer, more perilous, with our way of life hanging in the balance.
In Part 1 of this article I discussed the catalyst spark which ignited this Fourth Turning and the seemingly delayed regeneracy. In Part 2 I pondered possible Grey Champion prophet generation leaders who could arise during the regeneracy. In Part 3 I focused on the economic channel of distress which is likely to be the primary driving force in the next phase of this Crisis. In Part 4 I will assess the social and cultural channels of distress dividing the nation, Part 5 the technological, ecological, political, military channels of distress likely to burst forth with the molten ingredients of this Fourth Turning, and finally in Part 6 our rendezvous with destiny, with potential climaxes to this Winter of our discontent.
The road ahead will be distressful for everyone living in the U.S., as we experience the horrors of war, economic collapse, civil chaos, political upheaval, and the tearing of society’s social fabric. The pain and suffering being experienced across the globe today will not bypass the people of the United States. Winter has arrived and lethal storms are gathering in the distance. Don’t think you can escape. You can prepare, but this Crisis will reshape our society for better or worse, and you cannot sidestep the consequences or cruel environment we must survive.
“Reflect on what happens when a terrible winter blizzard strikes. You hear the weather warning but probably fail to act on it. The sky darkens. Then the storm hits with full fury, and the air is a howling whiteness. One by one, your links to the machine age break down. Electricity flickers out, cutting off the TV. Batteries fade, cutting off the radio. Phones go dead. Roads become impossible, and cars get stuck. Food supplies dwindle. Day to day vestiges of modern civilization – bank machines, mutual funds, mass retailers, computers, satellites, airplanes, governments – all recede into irrelevance. Picture yourself and your loved ones in the midst of a howling blizzard that lasts several years. Think about what you would need, who could help you, and why your fate might matter to anybody other than yourself. That is how to plan for a saecular winter. Don’t think you can escape the Fourth Turning. History warns that a Crisis will reshape the basic social and economic environment that you now take for granted.” – Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning
Social Distress
The vast and growing Grand Canyon sized gap between the haves and have nots, and the societal implications of an elitist uber-wealthy minority capturing the levers of our economic, financial, and political systems, using that control to further enrich themselves at the expense of the isolated working class, can be clearly understood by following the dialogue between three billionaires chatting on stage at a conference thrown by a convicted Wall Street criminal.
Sheryl Sandberg: “Yeah, so let’s follow up on a bunch of the things we were talking about. Let’s start with income inequality.”
Hank Paulson: “Ok, well.. income inequality. I think this is something we’ve all thought about. You know I was working on that topic when I was still at Goldman Sachs..”
Robert Rubin: “In which direction? You were working on increasing it.”
Hank Paulson then bursts out laughing: “Yeah! We were making it wider!”
Paulson and Rubin spent vast portions of their lives working for the vampire squid on the face of America – Goldman Sachs. This firm represents everything wrong with our social order, as they use all means (legal or illegal) to enrich themselves, whether it be back stabbing clients, double crossing partners, eviscerating vulnerable competitors, robbing the poor, rigging markets, buying influence, placing executives in the highest levels of government, or screwing the taxpayer when their risky gambles blow up the world. Paulson and Rubin are the perfect representatives of the .1% ruling class who protect their interests and the interests of their crony capitalist colleagues at all costs. They truly believe they are shrewder, more astute, cleverer, deserving of the billions they have absconded through rigging the markets, should be running the country behind the scenes, and merit the worship of the lowly peasantry.
The gap between the richest 1% and the bottom 90% has never been wider in history. The previous largest gap occurred in 1929, at the start of the last Fourth Turning. When the real median household income hasn’t advanced in the last 26 years and men’s real wages are where they were in 1971, while CEOs of S&P 500 companies make 331 times their workers and Wall Street hedge fund managers make billions while paying no taxes, you have building anger, disillusionment and calls for retribution.
Some people are waking up to the fact the Ben Bernanke led Federal Reserve and the Hank Paulson/Tim Geithner led Treasury saved their buddies on Wall Street while throwing the people on Main Street under the bus. When Wall Street’s leveraged risk bets pay off, they reap all the riches – as is happening today. When their colossal wagers go bad, the propaganda about systematic failure is rolled out and the American people are stuck with the losses. The goal has always been to revive the stock market and make sure the Wall Street banks continue to generate billions in profits, while leaving the taxpayer on the hook for their failed bets.
The OWS and Tea Party were both grass roots initiated movements as a societal response to the distress created by Wall Street and their government crony cohorts. The Wall Street banks colluded with DHS and captured politicians of both parties to crush OWS and subvert the Tea Party. The Deep State’s success in squashing dissent from what they considered the lowly peasants has only been temporarily papered over by the $10 trillion of debt issued to keep the masses sedated, deluded and ignorant about the true nature of the ongoing crisis. The storyline about the 1% is misleading, as many people in the 1% are small business owners, doctors, and professional workers. The true story is the exponential wealth increase of the .1% over the last 35 years as the financialization of the economy has enriched psychopathic, highly educated men who produce nothing but misery, debt, and ultimately social unrest.
Decomposing the 1% reveals the top .1% increasing their share of the national wealth from less than 9% in 1980 to over 21% today. These are the corporate CEO’s buying back their company stock at all-time highs in order to boost their stock based compensation, Wall Street executives who committed the largest control fraud in world history while unabashedly flaunting laws & regulations, hedge fund managers who manipulate and rig the markets while paying no taxes on their billion dollar profits, and billionaire cronies who profit from the military industrial complex and sick care complex by paying off politicians to write laws in their favor and funnel government contracts to them. The sacking and pillaging of the nation’s wealth by psychopaths who are never satisfied with their current vast level of riches, power and control, exposes itself in the tremendous recovery on Wall Street and the ongoing depression on Main Street.
A simmering rage is bubbling below the surface as 20% of American households rely on food stamps to survive, the percentage of Americans in the labor force stands at a four decade low, real household income remains stagnant at 1988 levels, corporate profits have reached record levels while corporations continue to fire Americans – shipping their jobs overseas, and the six mega-corporations representing the mainstream media cover up the truth, mislead the public with propaganda, while celebrating the .1% as saviors of our economy. There is nothing more volatile to societal stability than millions of unemployed men, growing angry and resentful towards the ruling class for their lot in life.
The vast gulf between the haves and have nots will fuel further violence between the classes, as our fraying society is already seething with anger between races, religions, political parties, and genders. The increasingly brutal police state, militarization of local police forces, shaking down of citizens through fines, and unlawful surveillance of our electronic communications, will lead to a backlash against police.
The Black Lives Matter movement, begun after a number of police brutality incidents against black men, has been hijacked by politically motived race baiters and is exacerbating tensions between blacks and whites. The false storyline perpetuated by the media disregards the fact blacks, who represent 13% of the population, commit 22% of all violent crimes and 93% of black shooting victims are shot by other blacks. The white population, abiding by laws, is getting sick of being blamed for the gun violence and lawlessness in liberal ghetto bastions like Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, St. Louis and Philadelphia.
Cultural Distress
Even though the vast majority of gun related crimes happen in urban ghettos and the much publicized mass shootings are committed by mentally deranged young men on psychotropic drugs, liberal control freak politicians use scare tactics and misinformation in their effort to grab the guns of law abiding Americans living in rural regions. It is the elitist hypocrite politicians living on the coasts, protected by armed guards, who want to eviscerate the 2nd Amendment, and think it is fine for the 4th Amendment to be disregarded by police thugs across the land. Disarming the citizenry is essential to implementing a dictatorial regime. The race wars have intensified, as the Black Lives Matter meme has spread to college campuses in Missouri and in the hallowed Ivy League at Yale and Princeton.
The bullying tactics of the pampered participation trophy generation of entitled millennials, being misled by social justice warrior ideologues, is fueling a backlash by older generations who studied, worked hard, obtained useful college degrees, repaid their student loans, and didn’t use race, gender, or micro-aggressions as excuses when they failed. College campuses, which once championed free speech and free thought, have now become bastions of censorship, left wing ideology, suppression of opinion, shouting down of dissent, thought control, and subduing the rights of the majority for the benefit of an outraged minority who resort to violent rhetoric to achieve their outcomes.
Institutions of higher education have become nothing more than glorified daycare centers for kids who never grew up, learned personal responsibility, or developed critical thinking skills. The feckless college faculty and administrators have allowed financial considerations to override learning, as the curriculum has been dumbed down to meet the degraded capabilities of their high self-esteem/low intelligence students. The reality of an increasingly brutal economic environment and high likelihood of war is about to crash headlong into the coddled, pampered, parent protected, iGadget, facebook worlds of millions of millennials.
They will be nothing but cannon fodder for the Deep State unless they develop a backbone, start thinking critically about what is happening in this world, start dealing with reality, stop trusting the government to save them, and make a stand against the corporate fascist tyranny consuming our nation. The Peter Pan Syndrome, where people with the body of an adult but the mind of a child, increasingly dominate the landscape, as a larger number of supposed adults exhibit emotionally immature behaviors. The self-neutering of young men is the result of twelve years of feminist social engineering in government controlled public schools. The wussificiation is complete.
The combination of social justice warriors, pushing agendas completely out of step with mainstream Americans, and a dying legacy media providing infotainment disguised as news, fuels further cultural distress from coast to coast. With liberalism rampant and dominant on the coasts and conservatism governing the heartland, the cultural divide in the country is a gaping chasm. Average Americans trying to live their lives, pay their bills, and raise families have no strong opinions about gay marriage, men dressing like women, or other deviant behavior performed by consenting adults in the privacy of their own households. But when the liberal media, social justice warriors, and Hollywood elites shove the “right” to gay marriage, the crucifying of people for their religious beliefs, the “courage” of a man pretending to be a woman, and the glorification of abhorrent behavior, down the throats of Americans trying to mind their own business, an unforeseen backlash is inevitable.
The war on the traditional family unit, white males, societal norms, common decency, and community standards has gone too far and the pushback from common decent middle class folks has begun. It is a proven fact that households with married parents are on average wealthier, raise kids who do better in school, can withstand economic setbacks better, and have been the backbone of this country since its inception. The feminist belief that women can raise children without men has proven to be a disaster.
With the percentage of married households plunging from over 70% in 1970 to under 50% today, an ominous tipping point has been reached. Rather than address this truly disastrous problem, the radical feminists and race baiters carry on their culture wars. The social justice warriors, prodded by the liberal media and agenda driven ideologues, are offended by free speech, white people, men, married couples, religious freedom, having to repay loans, gun owners, capitalism, carbon dioxide, meat, yoga and anyone who dares to disagree with their antagonistic, bombastic, vacuous nonsense.
Shockingly, they aren’t offended by the tattooed, pierced freaks roaming the streets, angry because no one will hire them. They aren’t offended by the millions of willfully ignorant, low class army of lazy Obama voters who feel entitled to free housing, free medical care, free food, free phones, and free education at the expense of the working middle class. They aren’t offended by the 70% of black babies born out of wedlock and black men shirking their responsibilities as fathers. They aren’t offended by the rampant criminality and murder rates in the Democrat controlled urban ghettos, created by the welfare policies implemented over the last 50 years.
They aren’t offended by 93% of black murders being committed by blacks. They aren’t offended by a president droning wedding parties and bombing hospitals, while fighting undeclared wars in foreign lands. They aren’t offended by the widespread Medicare, SSDI, and food stamp fraud, costing taxpayers billions per year. Normal people living normal lives are sick and tired of the hypocritical, hollow horseshit rubbed in their faces by a dying legacy media and agenda driven social networks on a daily basis. The foolishness and lunacy of these feckless feeble minded warriors against normalcy will be exposed when confronted by the harsh reality of a Fourth Turning.
The rise of Donald Trump and Ben Carson in the early polls for Republican presidential candidate is being fueled by a rising anger and discontent with the corporate media promoting offensive social agendas, the flaunting of the Constitution by a president ruling by executive order, a GOP establishment corrupted by power and unanswerable to their constituents, the disinterest of politicians in both parties in securing our porous southern borders from foreign invasion by illegal hordes. Now the repercussions of Obama ignoring the threats of Islamic extremism and allowing tens of thousands of undocumented Syrian refugees to flood into the country immediately overwhelming our insolvent welfare system and refusing to assimilate into our culture as they worship at mosques where they are taught to hate everything about American culture, is further fueling a political backlash.
As Aldous Huxley realized six decades ago, the truth is unimportant to those controlling the “free” press and shallow distractions will keep the masses occupied while the controllers achieve their goals.
“In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or it might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies — the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.” – Aldous Huxley, 1958, in the article The Capitalist Free Press
The media will use their standard propaganda techniques of showing crying women and children to tug at the heartstrings of a naïve, unaware populace to allow refugees from a conflict created by the U.S. in Syria to come into our country. You know the tired rhetoric – give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. But this is a Fourth Turning where the harsh reality crashes headlong into rhetoric, memes, and storylines.
Whether the U.S. government is responsible or not for creating the wave of Islamic radicals practicing their warped religious beliefs across the globe by committing murder against innocent people, the fact remains that only Muslims are waging this war against non-believers. There are no Catholics, Baptists, Lutherans, Jews, Buddhists, or atheists spreading their religious beliefs by committing acts of terror or waging war. A religious war is brewing and the consequences will be far reaching and bloody for those practicing Islam. There may be only a small minority of radical jihadists, but the silence of the majority speaks volumes to non-Muslims around the world.
As this Fourth Turning continues to intensify, the bowing down to political correctness and agendas of social justice warrior bigots by traditional minded Americans is going to stop. The pushback may be violent, as the aggressive tactics of these free speech hating fascists is met with armed confrontation they aren’t anticipating. These “warriors” aren’t exactly the Hero generation who did the heavy lifting during the last Fourth Turning. Privileged, entitled, ignorant millennials bullying weak kneed college professors and milquetoast administrators on the campuses of liberal arts colleges isn’t exactly storming the beaches of Normandy or battling through the jungles on Guadalcanal.
When confronted with Americans who have seen their standard of living falling for the last twenty five years and are sick and tired of hearing drivel about white privilege, black lives matter, safe spaces, gay and transgender “rights”, micro-aggressions, rape culture, misogyny, $15 minimum wage, and a myriad of other offenses against feminism, these easily offended “warriors” will piss their pants. These trivialities will seem so quaint when they are confronted with an angry guy with a gun on the streets or when they are told to report for duty as we wage war with Russia and China. The foolishness of the culture wars will become strikingly apparent when economic collapse and life or death choices confront our special snowflake generation.
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Quinn:
Why do you keep puking up the same bullshit over and over again? Have you not read any other book, in the last two decades?
The 4th Turding written by Stress&How is a horrid intellectual mess, a narrow and biased ameri-centric mix, consisting of one part historical riffing, one part astrology, and one part flimsy correlation of questionable data patterns. This latest rehashed effort of yours is little more than your condescending attempt at palm reading.
A few predictions might be true but ultimately the suggestions from the book as to how to deal with the looming catastrophe has citizens all being good little docile unquestioning morons.
It's sad that people like you take this supposed academic tripe so seriously!
Stress&How's writing is incoherent. A good theory can be stated clearly and easily followed in a logical way. Cycles in history, like the seasons, do have some consistency. But to assemble the writings in a potpourri and present it as credible is beyond comprehension.
The 4th Turding has a lot of words... ( many of them made up )... so you call it a book... not even mentioning the absolutely atrocious and arrogant writing of the authors.
You are a "D" student in that "F" Class!
This is just another lesson from your, SPECIAL CLASS 101, attended by 4th Turding Retards and 9/11Morons. Stress&How's book is only good for intellectual shits and giggles... not much else.
Quinn, why do you not play with other Nostradamic prophecies that have those same social ramifications listed? A few of them are bound to be right no matter what happens.
This is a kooky, neurotic theory of predictable future that strongly rings of some of the economic cycle prediction wonks of the 1970s. Millions of people have made prophecies...almost all of them have come out to be wrong. Definitely a very flaky, new-agey undercurrent to this whole thing. There are many other prophecies in the book that turn out dead wrong.
Try Tarot cards next time ...after all, out of the whole pack, there are bound to be a few cards that accurately correspond.
Neil Howe is as dense as you about the reality of 9/11.
Just what the hell is all this meaningless verbage supposed to do for the 3000 people murdered by ameriklan zioNazis on 9/11?
Wake the fuck up!
The ZioNazis declared war on all free people of the world and the REAL TURNING is dated from Sept. 11, 2001!
9/11 was the opening salvo of WWIII!
You're 9/11MORON ... and a Traitor not only to truth and your nation but to yourself and your family.
Quinn, just another miserable FAIL for you.
9/11 is your Litmus Test !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6O4LE0eTYc
ps. (You'll just have to repeat 9/11 Special Class again next year.)
September eleventh was allowed to happen; it was facilitated. To incriminate those greatly involved I might suggest by starting now with putting forth energy towards staying abreast and open about how policy from September eleventh has allowed the landscape that is hitherto. Expose those whom have benefitted since that day; reveal those whom have since hidden from that day. But, please do not let your good energy steam towards the past in such a way.
As Huxley says: Here & Now, Boys. Here & Now.
PS: If we do not take the past accordingly, we will, in the end, be assholes wasting energy, like assholes.
Pull it!
There may be some truth in generational cycles, but trying to predict them is rather like trying to predict stawks.
But I highly doubt the end of the next crisis looks like 1945, where everyone roots for the same team and is a perfect cog in the machine.
"Social & Cultural Distress Dividing The Nation"
Uh... no one or nothing has done more to divide this Nation...
More than our unimpeachable dictator, El Presidente Obozo. Period!
Quinn is blind, deaf & FOS.
Should be mute.
Not giving Obama a free pass but,,, he is not responsible for all of this. There's the Bush's, the Clinton's, Nixon, and especially Johnson who started the whole shebang.
Actually going back to the beginning of the 20th Century (especially Wilson) with the exception of two,,, maybe three.
I agree Obama is by far the worse but each one of his predecessors pushed the envelope as far as they could.
The next will be far worse if this trend continues.
I don't think this trend CAN'T not continue. Societies are like people. Grow up, get strong, make your mark, get old and die.
It's time to get right with Jesus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ36S3d1CaU
Don't try to scare the US sheeple.
Let them enjoy their multiculturalstatism while it lasts.
http://goo.gl/bNS18Z
#BlackFridayMatters
Oh, Fuck It.... Legal marijuana for EVERYONE!
Sure. Pot only destroys your brain. So if you don't have any, it's harmless...
Alcohol destroys brain cells. Cannabis grows them. If you don't know that then you have been co-opted.
The police state depends on Prohibition for its overt rationale. Don't be a useful idiot.
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Ayn Rand -
Indeed. That juicy little tidbit of fact flew by the public's collective consciousness 50 years ago when cars still had rear fins and TV was just beginning it's rapture with the masses. The devices we all carry and the apps they all run allow us to be corralled without effort into the biggest shooting gallery ever constructed by the ruling Oligarchs. We ain't getting out of this pen without some blood being shed, and it ain't gonna be an insignificant amount either. Thankfully most of the insipid, lazy, vapid, inked and carved up FSA masses are sinfully sloth-like and perfect for use as human shields when that time comes. I mourn only that my pity and humanity have taken the brunt of this merciless, never-ending onslaught to our sensibilities while blue ribbons are passed out to all the kiddies and entitlements to their parents. Fuck them all if they are too stupid to see the storm that has arisen all around us, and for not building and seeking proper shelter from it ... the defense of which will prove upon looking back 100 years hence to be the time of the greatest culling of human lives since the dark ages and the plague. Hedge accordingly.
Fuck, now I need a Jameson and a pint of Guinness. Good night and good luck to all you ZHers who have listened, watched and prepared yourselves. I love this site.
It's not so much "the government" that bears the most blame - it's corporations who *own* every facet of the government and the corporate media that distracts and lies to the American people. Yes, most Americans are to be blamed for their sheeple conformity; in their total lack of facing the reality of what the US has become.
Agreed. Quinn keeps recycling stuff we already know. Then again, so does Gerald Celente- Doesn't make it not true, but it's still tiresome.
The reason this shit-show continues is because the great mass of people believe in the shit-show. They petition the masters of the shit-show. Some even beg forgiveness.
Quinn's a beggar, as are Strauss and Howe.
Its's gonna be what it's gonna be- and we'll wince as their bones crunch beneath our wheels.
Sad. He coulda been a contender. It was his own choice.
By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd." J P Morgan 1913
Thank you, my point, exactly!
Jim can't quite get is head around the evil that is international jewry.
There's still hope- we ain't dead yet!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs
5 years and you jst started posting. You have anger issues. Seek help
DavidPierre is a long-time poster. He's vociferous in his objection to Quinn's 9/11 Denial. As am I, by the way.
DavidPierre is Jim Willie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sldUugfArNc
2 hours ... the best rant on the web.
Jim WillieWhatever you may think about Jim Willie at least he is not so completely retarded to be in denial of 9/11, the biggest mind control scam and mis-directed crime scene in history.
"Whatever you may think about Jim Willie at least he is not so completely retarded to be in denial of 9/11, the biggest mind control scam and mis-directed crime scene in history."
In history? Bigger than The Constitution swindle? The myriad of lies that underpin America's great holy wars (e.g., Lincoln's "Civil War", WW I, WW II)? The Federal Reserve? I don't think so.
9/11 was a massive con and mind fuck with far reaching, terrible consequences, but gain some historical perspective.
Not sure who David Pierre is but David is connected to, perhaps is, the link below.
http://www.lemetropolecafe.com/
My advice to you? When David Pierre swings, you get out of the way.
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/adam-smith-would-neither-recognize-nor-approve-our-financial-monetary-economic-or-legal-#comment-1509275
Consider yourself warned.
Don't worry, David Pierre is a moron who got pissed off on Jim Quinn's website many moons ago and since then is waging his private war against him.
His posts are not about The Fourth Turning or reasonably discussing any of Jim's opinions (outside 9/11), but pure bile.
David Pierre is a very narrow thinker (already visible by touting The Fourth Turning to be a horrid intellectual mess - I doubt he has ever read it)
and only recently has widened his public stance in his posts to not look like a complete idiot already at first look.
And his favorite word is litmus (Why do you keep puking up the same bullshit over and over again, I might echo)
If you like astrology, get The 4th Turding.
The book is a lame potpourri of random facts, scholarly borrowings and unsubstantiated claims poorly written, jumping all over the place, from pillar to post. Stress&How cite numerous types of questionable cycles, but most of which are not relevant to their thesis. They also cite dozens of parallel claims by other reputable historical scholars, but use only the "money quotes" without any real substantive analysis.
While the authors present a novel idea, and there are clearly repetitions in historical periods, this pre-packaged form of history troubles on several levels.
First, their cited events rely on a mythological understand of history, with many important facts and events conveniently forgotten.
Second, this form of simplified history rejects a careful and nuanced understanding of complicated world events.
Third, it pretends that we can actually understand and predict history by essentially reading charts - a claim of cult leaders and hedge fund managers.
Finally, their approach is set forth as universal, but the book is devoid of international examples. If China has retained civil society for thousands of years, why isn't this cycle more obvious there?
The authors have an obvious right-wing almost fascist agenda. The preparations urged onto their readers for the coming crises are typical of John Birch evangelism.
You can just see the Stress&How sitting next to John Forbes Nash, Jr. ("A Beautiful Mind') in a garage pinning random Life Magazine articles to the wall and drawing lines through seemingly random events to construct an alternate universe.
If you are looking for a bunch of rhetoric of the conservative, "bring back tradition!" bullshit this is what you will get.
This is just another Nostradamus prophecy type book. It may have predicted a few of the many social ramifications listed. But then again so what?
You once again have not mentioned a single specific line of thought in Howe&Strauss' book.
I see mostly dumbed down generalizations.
Let's go deeper on one a little more specific example you brought up:
What part of the preparations urged onto their readers are almost fascist?
Please point to statements in the book (page numbers appreciated.)
I've interacted with "David Pierre" in real life. He's a decent guy. Quinn's position on 911 is ludicrous, which makes him highly suspect.
That explains why it couldn't hold my attentioon. I love to read. But my frustration with so many writers are the endless trivial details that show no respect for my time.
ADHD or lack of speed reading skills ?
I could get what I wanted out of it by skipping and skimming. The jargon is a turnoff
I can still recommend the book, but I found "'The Great Wave" by David Hackett Fishcher to be more informative. Fishcher explains how climate change affects psychology, prices and historical cycles. Strauss & Howe limit themselves to psychological changes with is a shortcoming of conventional historians.
And this — http://i2.wp.com/www.truthofgujarat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Hitle... — how the "Climate Change"fraud gets away with ignoring this — http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/PageMill_Images/image277.gif — and so much else.
Excellent graph on Co2 and temperature drop.
The chart shows no correlation between atmospheric CO2 and global temperatures, only occasional coincidences.
Far more important, however, is the fact that plants die at atmospheric CO2 levels below 150 ppm. So whatever the reason for the rise from around 250 ppm at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to over 400 ppm today, we should be very thankful for it, all the more so if former Greenpeace head Patrick Moore is right in claiming that the rise is primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels:
http://www.thegwpf.org/patrick-moore-should-we-celebrate-carbon-dioxide
Poor communication is ruining the Homo sapiens.
I agree 100%, 9/11 is the most important thing to understand, it is the basis for politics in the US and the world.
People are going to be hung for 9/11, it is going to be an upset of the political structure like none ever before.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/11/28/nsas-capabilities-have-nev...
Intelligence professionals say judge capabilities, not intent. Either way, NSA and the deep state should scare all of us silly. Those bastards are the danger to ccitizens of the US, not any Muslim.
9/11 means that all sectors of the American government are controlled by criminals and traitors.
Treason is colluding with foreign powers and domestic enemies against the nation.
9/11 certainly meets that definition.
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FRENCH AUTHORITIES WERE TOLD TO STAND DOWN BEFORE PARIS ATTACKShttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMiKE8xlR_8
While jews are by far the greatest danger, they also weoponize Muslims and blacks against us.
Don't know about the Jews,,, but governments do this for sure when they go to the dark side (as the USA has) as it's a way of temporary control until they think they are omnipotent and undefeatable.
It always fascinates me when someone I'm talking to says 911 doesn't matter anymore.
#FalseFlagsMatter
I'll tell you why Jew bashing turns me off. First of all, they don't have a monopoly on evil. To blame Jews or any other ethnicity or religion is an implicit confession to the stupidity of the masses. I submit that we have evil because we have mass stupidity.
Two people I know in my personal life actually pissed their money away on some book Cheney wrote. They came away believing he is a good man. Nothing I could say would convince them he's a psycho. Within two minutes, I could see there was no point pursing my argument. I meet people like this all the time.
I've come to the the conclusion that the vast majority of adults have the emotional maturity of teenagers. High IQ does not contribute towards rationality.
‘People are going to be hung’
What? Bwahahahaha….
Europe further down the crazy hole.
They will allow Europe to be destroyed with mass immigration in order to not be racist.
Hung or deboweled. Doesn't much matter, does it? The punishment will fit the crime. Best wish you're not on the list, ToSoft4Truth.
And the end of his life was most brilliant: for when the Athenians had a war against their neighbours in Eleusis, coming to the rescue and making a rout of the enemy he died most beautifully, and the Athenians had buried him publicly right where he fell, and honoured him greatly.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.01...
"The foolishness of the culture wars will become strikingly apparent when economic collapse and life or death choices confront our special snowflake generation."
This is what will truly be, the only satisfying moment, of this very sad story...
Hank Paulson should be the first to be hung, then Bernanke & Geithner next, then: Dimon, then Blankfein, then Kashn'carry, then every CONgress critter that voted to bail out the banks/corporations/insurers, then as the coup de grace - Jon Fucking Corzine!
It doesn't end with Corzine. You forgot the CFTC and so many 3/4 letter agencies it staggers belief. Corzine is the end of the beginning.
I love you guys.
You have 3 CEOs of Goldman Sachs on your hanged list. ... Go figure.
He was keeping the list short for ease of typing. I'm sure there are a 4th, 5th, 6th, etc. Let's turn the Squid into calimari.
Usa Usa Usa
Well hung. Like Mussolini. Then used as a Mexican Piñata --> Mussolini Piñata.
The lot of them at the Fed, GS...
Being the democratic sort, I'd offer them an Alternative Ending: The Fargo-Chipper.
I share your sentiment sir.
But why try to appropriate a foriegn tradition? Why not fall back on our own glorious past?
Call them Mississippi Windchimes. Or substitute your town/county/state name.
It's 100% All American.
FUCK YEAH!
Sophisticates prefer the term "hanged" to "hung".
I want first dibs on Geithner. I would love 10 minutes with him and my baseball bat
I want Lloyd "Doing God's Work" Blankfein. I got a chainsaw.
Wood chipper. The American Guiotinne.
What pisses me off is that those (most all of em) will escape to their hidaways when it all implodes and the common man will be left with the mess.
I can only hope the guilty parties (all of em) are hunted down and exterminated ! ! ! !
And their fukin offspring and educated relatives too ! ! ! !
They will be hunted down.
You have spent 3200+ words crying about the situation. You have spent zero words, and probably a similar amount of neuron power, coming up with solutions. Pardon my salt, but I'm getting tired of long diatribes on problems and nothing but simple-minded snippets, if that, for solutions.
How about putting an equal amount of effort into proposing some real solutions?
He hints at the solution throughout the article and there is only one real solution which is why the oligarchs in government are so adamant about gun confiscation and why the militarization of the local yokel ramp up.
The solution he won't submit, but gently hints toward will come from the barrels of millions of guns.
Also inferred is that the instigators in tihs mess, the liberals, progressives, and SJWs, are for the most part un-armed. While the other side, the 'normals', or conservative middle class Americans, are armed and in the majority.
So, being smarter than a bag of rocks, the author left those ideas out there without directly stating them.
Perhaps you should re-read the article and carefully consider what the author is trying to communicate.
I guess in 'Murica, there is not much room for nuance or subtlety.
We are more of a "GO AWAY BAITIN!" country now.
Indeed, the author doesn't want to be charged for sedition, or black bagged under the NDAA and
never seen again.
Where is one of your solutions?. I would think bringing Jewish influence and power closer to their percent of the population
would be one
It could be worse - we could be living in Turkey.
How many people do you know who have even heard of workforce participation or understand that real unemployment is significantly higher than reported? The delivery of most economic numbers has been finely honed over decades for this particular purpose, that being human consumption. The criminals have succeeded. The only thing that changes the mindset of those who don't care enough to pay attention is the realization that they've been lied to. The stage managing will continue, and there is no end in sight in the US. All of the hope, anger and wishing amongst the informed has not and will not change this reality. All of the prodding in the world is not going to pry the numb away from their favorite distractions and toward some valid, lucid and honest thought.
Debt, signal failures, manipulations, Oil prices, interest rates or stagnant incomes mean little to the average Joe who schluggs 5 days a week then does Facebook and Football for the remainder. "That' just the way it is" says Mr/Mrs. Stupid. And, as we know, that's the plan. Sure, they think 2.00 gas is great, but that's about the extent of their understanding. I've listened to a 12/hr douchebag inform his less refined compatriots how He's gonna get himself 1000 shares of APPL, and how they should sell their gold cause it's going to 300.00. He would'nt have the first clue how to accomplish either one. This is the mentality we are forced to live among.
FOOD INSECURITY is the trigger and the Criminals know it.
Let's assume 5% of the US general public has an understanding of what's really happening and 25% is the tipping point, be it through job loss, elections, self education or the like. An awakening of 3% per year gives those who are more motivated valuable time to continue the preparation. Be thankful not angry.
Everybody will meet their maker. This world is a mess and you may feel powerless but you can do something about what world you will see next.
John 3:16. Jesus Saves.
Jesus saves? My wife spends.
She's a product of the 80s and 90s: Born to shop. No matter how often I say "Jeezus Christ!", I don't see him saving her. Only an EMP can.
God loves
Jesus saves
Buddha laughs
This was okay until Quinn got into his usual BS social ranting/half-truths. Boomers worked out and repaid their college loans. BS they did and the reason Congress first changed the bankruptcy laws in 1976 regarding higher education was because Boomers (especially law and MBA grads) were gaming the system by declaring bankruptcy soon after they graduated to avoid repayment.
As for the divorce rates, they sparked in the 70s not due to welfare but 2 simple facts - the widespread adoption of no-fault divorce laws by most states (starting in CA in '69 and spreading quickly to most states by the mid-70s) and their prevalence and price point of birth control pills for the first time in human history made it possible to have recreational sex withouth the risk of pregnancy. The social conservatives NEVER acknowledge these 2 basic facts. For starters to get marriages rates approaching the pre-70s, you would have to federally ban all no-fault divorce laws making them only available under strict circumstances and ban birth control. Both of them are complete non-starters among Americans today including the social conservatives too.
"birth control pills for the first time in human history made it possible to have recreational sex withouth the risk of pregnancy."
hmmmm,,, why so many "legal" preborn infanticides.
Social hypocrisy at work: Women are falsely taught that using the Pill suggests that they plan to "sin", rather than just losing to it spontaneously.
It's mostly a US phenomenon, born of and propagated by ideology and ignorance. European women use birth control (use pill with a steady BF, and make a new BF or stranger use a condom). They also tend to be less promiscuous (fewer partners), because they fear STDs far more than a pregnancy. That's because they can easily get an early abortion (first 10 weeks), but not so easily in getting rid of Clamydia, Genital Warts, or HIV. Now that's clear and pragmatic thinking for you.
Far worse than that including arguing for the teaching of 'abstitence only' sexual education in primary education even to high schoolers. Nevermind that there is not yet a single, peer-reviewed medical literature study that shows it is remotely effectively. Yet if we only teach the kids more about why having sex is bad before marriage, they won't do it! Teenagers can deny their basic biological drive, societal and peer pressure, and lack of life experience if they simply think about God and Jesus!
If the same people who wanted to prevent abortions and teenage pregnancy really wanted to address the issues, they would educate children at a very early age including what sex is, what happens, and what are some of the consequences without simply using negative reinforcement especially shame or fear, making birth control coverage mandatory and freely available along with condoms, and being proactive about this topic.
The same people who are the most outspoken about abstitence-only education too argue that young children can be exposed to firearms and given the right to use them yet they shouldn't be taught about sex?! Massive inconsistency in logic and thought. Argue the best course of action in most bases is education that is age appropriate. In the case of firearms, exposure including firing them but only with sufficient training and oversight. Guns aren't toys or even tools. Their killing implements and will they shouldn't be feared they should be respected and acknowledged as such.
I tried abstinence and avoided promiscuity as a teenager, through prayer. Lots of it.
It didn't work. What worked, was a collection of Playboy and Penthouse. (It's a pity that I didn't keep my 70s and 80s collection, as they might actually be worth something today.)
It is utter ideological folly -- even when based on Religious views (organized ancient superstitions and codified tribalism) -- when Nature will do what Nature has always done: Nature Rules -- not puny, vain, arrogant man.
YOU are SO full of crap, it is amazing. What world are you from? Baby Boomers were not allowed to avoid re-payment of their loans! The IRS would come after you and take those payments out of pay-checks. Boomers worked their asses off.
Unleashed female sexuality, unrestrained hypergamy, and ascension of the 'security over liberty' culture are all a product of women's suffrage, and are what is destroying this country, which was designed as a representative republic where only those with skin in the game were allowed to have a say, and where liberty was the highest value. In fact feminine primacy in a culture is always a predictor of its coming decline.
Now security is the highest value, along with mammon. And people with ill gotten gains are highly esteemed.
Quinn's points about the toxic culture of the SJWs and its effects are spot on IMO.
This country has become effiiminate. We have to have rules and laws to 'protect' us from every possible hazard, and of course forced confiscation of assets to pay for it all, because it takes a village.
Capiche? The Patriarchy (TM) is what built western civilization. It is what enabled the inventions that power our society.
If the feminist order was in charge 300 years ago, we'd still be using wood for fuel, and no Europeans would live on the North American continent. It would've been deemed too dangerous and affirmative action would've reqiured a female ship captain and 50% female crews on the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria. They would've turned by back before they got to the Canary Islands because of the big waves or somebody had her period and said mean stuff.
This society we have now cannot fight its way out of a wet paper bag, or invent anything. Somebody's feelings might get hurt.
We live under an emotional tyranny of feelings controlled by life's losers who want to use guns to equalize all outcomes.
That is why we are fucked.
Bring back the Patriarchy!
Just wait until ISIS starts suicide bombing the Walmarts and TV stations. The fun will start when the feminists are forced to conform to Islam with the Burqas, Honor Killings, and the mutilations, As for Gays, well they will have a swinging time at the end of a rope. The liberals will get use to "Give peace a chance" when you have 5 or 6 bombing a day. Some liberal will never change.
In America free enterprise runs in our veins.
Put a $1000 bounty (payable in Au, Ag, or FRN) on ISIS men and watch the party get started.
Economic stimulus writ large.
At least the confiscated tax money and the printed FRNs would be spent toward something worthwhile.
"There are no Catholics, Baptists, Lutherans, Jews, Buddhists, or atheists spreading their religious beliefs by committing acts of terror or waging war."
The Jewish people in Israel wanting to steal more land from the Palestinians while caging them,,, and Christian America is making it possible. Yes the Palestinians are fighting with what they have but what would you do if an Army had you surrounded and was starving you and your children ever so slowly.
Exactly and there are plenty of attacks since the early 80s on Planned Parenthood sites almost all by white, middle-aged evangelical Christian nutjobs in the US with this week just being the latest one.
You;d think those people would appreciate that without Roe V. Wade, we'd have twice as many blacks in the US today than we do now.
They must have massive cognitive dissonance.
I'm tempted to start sending donations to PP.
Not a fan of abortion but I am a man that respects positive results.
Actually, we are probably short 40 to 60 milliom white people. Immigration is filling up a vacuum, and you know what Mother Nature thinks of that.
Encourage the guys to marry the girl. Some of the numbers would go down. Not all, but quite a few.
Social and Cultural "Distress"? More like "Psychosis", to me.
And when I start seeing ISIS attacking Banksters or Golan Heights settlers, instead of being treated* by them, will I believe that they are anything but another CIA sponsored, Mossad organized group of Jihadists-4-hire.
* 500 Jihadists treated at the Ziv Medical Center, with Nuttynyahoo shaking their filthy hands.
Exactly!! Spot on. I've been asking people the question for the last few years: WHY do the terrorists always target the little guy? Busses, schools, theaters, trains....Never do these thugs, who always allude the "intelligence" teams who are staked out all over the plane, go after and take out a huge group of Elites.
Also, ever notice how Thxgiving is always quiet? Why wouldn't they attack this very American holdiday? Oh, thats right, the real terrorists are home with hearth and family enjoying turkey meal. Of course, Christmas is another story. Terror seems to enfold during that time frame, especially since a lot of the "terrorists" don't celebrate it!!
Everyone I know, all the 'salt of the Earth' and 'My Country Right or Wrong' type of people are sick to death of the deluded, fraudulent, aggressive, and tyrannical leadership in this country.
Even the most staid and patriotic among them is mad as hell, totally disillusioned, and ready to physically rebel... Right down to the 50+ year old grandpa's.
Someday soon, one of the oligarchs minions is going to demand something 'Or you will go to jail' and have his brains decorate his high office. His 'official muscle' will choose the right side or become Christmas ornaments on the nearest tree.
Then it will be open season on these sub-human frauds. The social order is set to be washed away by a tidal wave.
Coastal oligarch cities may be actually nuked under the theory that God will sort them out.
When the old men, pillars of their communities, are ready to toss it all into the fire as unsalvagable, the status quo is already dead.
What remains is to toss out the corpse, and create a new order.
Scary time. Pray it ends well.
... Right down to the 50+ year old grandpa's.
I would say especially the 50+ year old grandpas, because they know what it took to build this place.
I'm 57, and a great long distance shooter. Count me in.
What does Kim Kardashian think?
Oprah & Kardashian only think about their fat asses, and other womens' fat asses. Once they get expanding butt disease that's all they can think about 24/7/365. That's why Oprah invests in Weight Watchers.
Nuclear winter is not what I would characterize as a 'fourth turning' due to the fact that it's game over once wmd are launched. And the nukes will get launched most assuredly. Moreover, I, for one, am tired of the same old drivel on this 'fourth turning' crap-O-la.
I;m no Obama fan but let's be factual, he isn't even in the Top 10 when it comes to number of executive orders issued by a president.
The real culture war here is between the folks who blame the government for all of their woes, those who think the government is the solution to their woes. When in reality the government is just a puppet for the corporations.
I thought you were gonna try to be honest?
Issuing an exec order for renaming a highway and an exec order to allow muslims and hispanics to invade the country unabated are 2 different things. Obama has been ruling against the majority of the people- I.E. Obamacare, Immigration, soon to be gun control. That's the hallmark of a dictator. Obama is a little tin horn wannabe
He's a PUPPET!! Obamacare was created by the Insurance companies. The "invasion of Muslims and Hispanics" was a direct result of Foreign policy which is dictated by a Group of men and women who work behind the scenes, many of which have ties to Israel:
Remember PNAC? Well, here is there latest re-creation of PNAC (this just came out around Aug of this year):
http://www.choosingtolead.net/
Obscuring the real dicatators, which is in reality an oligarchy, is really uncalled for and stupid.
The fourth turning of the comb is Trump's secret weapon....
My advice for the fourth turning to any holier than thou university type, or anyone else.....Im that one guy to fuck it up for everybody you little bowlegged lops of shit.
Keep Jack Stephan nice and jolly, gimme your weed and some of your ladies with daddy issues and bouncing tits. Keep me jokey and kinda tipsy, stay out of my way and 95 percent of all just shut the fuck up around me. Im not even going to explain myself.
Find it out the hard way if thats your thing,....... free country.
All i do is shoot bullets, this is all i do.
Sorry, all this bullet points of doom is kinda a bummer. its written well but damn its cold.
The only thing that saved me from going there and walking in a safe space and throwing a bucket of black widows in piles all over these morons is, i was shopping and the kid maybe 10 in front of me asked me to help me with my cart. I said" Hey kid, thanks but you got a cast on, how did you do that?
He said " I fell off the monkey bars, i dont care " i though................Good kid, thats americana. Adorable, I had all the same injuries, good for you squirt.
aside from lining the pockets of elite friends and family all that stimulus dough buys whole a lot of community agitating...so much hard earned money taken off the table, being wasted on non-value added programs/activity, including our non-competitive marxist government re-education system, commie-care, and the overabundance of non-value added regulations...including all the slip n fall lawyers and crappy judges who live high off the regulatory hog.
The United States government created the Government Media Complex by allowing 6 Megacorporations to concentrate all media into a monopoly. The quid pro quo is that the 6 Media Megacorporations always supports Big Government lying propaganda. Fuck the media. Fuck the political parasites. Fuck the elites. Fuck the snowflakes.
Fix this one, guys:
"The social justice warriors, prodded by the liberal media and agenda driven ideologues, are offended by free speech, white people, men, married couples, religious freedom, having to repay loans, gun owners, capitalism, carbon dioxide, meat, yoga and anyone who dares to disagree with their antagonistic, bombastic, vacuous nonsense."
I think you meant to NOT have Yoga in there, right?
http://www.therebel.media/university_of_ottawa_bans_free_yoga_class_beca...
Jeebus...
Well...well...well look who shows up! Long time no see!
Where the hell is that 4 part, 15K word series on 9/11 ?
It's time to focus on reality and leave Stress&How in the dustbin of academia.
I see even RE is tired of you.
Your bestest of buddies
DP
"The pushback may be violent, as the aggressive tactics of these free speech hating fascists is met with armed confrontation they aren’t anticipating."
They are anticipating, that is why there are school shootings with gu Confiscation coming up. Everywhere. Also in Europe after Paris they
Declared state of emergency
Further banned guns for the serfs
Gave themselves power to shut down Web sites
Increased security at the borders / escape routes
Wanted to ban bitcoin
Born in 1943, my husband of 47 years born in 1932. For a long time people had only one debt for the most part, a simple fixed rate home mortgage held at a local bank. A second mortgage was fairly disreputable and was seldom mentioned in general society. People saved up for a car or took public transport. Anti trust laws meant something. Then, quite suddenly, we were blasted with a raspy raucous probably bank funded female Voice boasting in full throated song about how she could "bring home the bacon and fry it up in a pan, and never, never, never forget you're a man, 'cause I'm, a wooman" and the credit card emerged from the fumes, along with the "feminist" movement and the bra burning "liberation" of women movement. Aka "women's lib". This wondrous opportunity assured women that they too must get jobs that they too could have credit cards. And oh yes, all the clothes for work, another car, a bigger house, a boat and on and on and on. (Somebody had to help fund Vietnam and assure that poppy crop.) At that time I was working on my commercial pilots license and watched in wonder as some women insisted that they too should be pilots because as women they were entitled, not so much that they had ability. Not so simple was it Toots? There have always been outstanding women pilots, but they got there on their excellence and skills, and yes, fair minded men treating them as their peers. When next you board an airline flight and see a woman in the cockpit, or look at your ocean liner captain and see a woman, know it is all about intelligence and ability, and love of the job, not entitlement. But also remember, I beg you, there is nothing wrong about being a stay at home mom because that's an increasingly crucially important, difficult job, now as never before.
You want practical steps America? STOP FEEDING THE BEAST. Stop using the lazy "swipe", get out of and stay out of debt. Shred the credit card and go back to cash and old fashioned paper checks. Stop pretending you're one of the fat cats, you're not and never will be. Use a credit union.
Don't let yourself or your kids become cannon fodder to "make ends meet". You're just feeding the Beast.
Don't believe that you HAVE to have a college education. You're just feeding the Beast.
Kill that under or unemployment time by doing something you love that has practical value. Raise organic potatoes or learn finish carpentry. Turn off the TV and ignore the phone and Stop feeding the Beast.
Just stop dead in your tracks and really THINK and stop feeding the Beast.
Pull it - or pull out!
Either get him out of office and get the Good Judge to put all these banksters, bought judges and bent politicians on trial, or get out with you children and your money.
Currency controls will probably be here this year. I am doing something about it, are you? www.fontebispo.com No Prepper Site will advertise this because they are all just marketing scams.
Thik outside the box and outside the ear first-strike zone. PH
The wisps of smoke started when the Supreme Court decided that the individual no longer had a right to protect their reputation. The Supreme Court gutted state defamation laws requiring the media to tell the truth or face financial ruin. At that time there were 1800 plus independent media outlets. NOW JUST 50 YEARS LATER THERE ARE 6. But that was mere accelerent on the fire that was brewing.
The popular election of Senators and income taxation were the progenators of our demise. They gutted our republican form of government and allowed the federal government and a new Legal Class to run roughshod over just about everything as has been so aptly described in this article.
Just a few minor points to make. From someone looking outside at the Democratic party and Obama bin Laden, it would be clear to any objective observer that the Democratic party is engaged in a war to exterminate the black race from America. Everything they have done increases the black on black crimes, lowers the birth rate and makes just about the entire race desperate individuals with only one sense; that of entitlement. The Democrats have set up the black race for a final extermination that will be sure to come in the 4th Turning. Not much will have to be done because when the welfare payments stop they will destroy their own communities and kill each other wholesale. The remnants will be easy to mop up. Hearty thanks to the Democratic Party.
The only thing that can fix the problems is a Plain Meaning rule for Constitutional Interpretation, state appointment of Senators, legislative approval of all rules and regulations formulated by any agency, balanced budget amendments for the federal government, term limits for all elected officials at the federal level, no one on welfare will be allowed to vote in any election unless and until they reimburse their welfare benefits, a limitation on the powers of the commerce clause so that any law passed under its authority does not permit Congress to bribe any state into submission and only laws that affect 1% or more of the economy are valid, corporations have no rights of free speech in any election and must remain silent for 1 year prior to any election, drugs must be made legal, there must be substantive limits on the combined powers of all governments wherein no more than 35% of anyone's earnings can be taxed by any means except in wartime, prisoners must work as slaves until they pay the victims of their crimes for the damages they have caused, and finally there will be two types of laws wherein a state and the federal government can each pass up to 100 pages of laws which every citizen is required to know or be presumed to know and any laws passed after that, the citizen must be informed they are breaking a law and given a chance to go fix it and if not then and only them suffer the penalties,
Seeing how none of this will get done, my suggestion to you is to start preparing yourself secretly with as much food and abilities to protect it and your family or loved ones because a French Revolution or Russian Revolution type event is coming. Once the event passes hopefully we will have another Constitutional Convention and the issues above will present themselves and things will be fixed.
How about we just enforce the Constitution we already have. I agree with the part about the State Governments picking the US Senators though.
http://www.intouch.org/watch/overflowing-with-gratitude-video?utm_source...
The South will rise again.
Hopefully in the North.
A couple more earthquakes and you may be correct.
Fracking idiots.
The south could end up anywhere! Maybe atop a volcano! PH.
“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” Warren Buffett
This has rolled out globally with the Neo-liberal ideology.
The 0.1% have gone to war against the 99.9% (aka the global consumer base)
This is what the 0.1% winning looks like – global recession.
How is the global consumer base?
1) The once wealthy Western consumer has had all their high paying jobs off-shored. As a stop gap solution they were allowed to carry on consuming through debt. They are now maxed out on debt.
2) Japanese consumers have been living in a stagnant economy for decades.
3) Chinese and Eastern consumers were always poorly paid and with nonexistent welfare states are always saving for a rainy day. Western demand slumped in 2008 and the debt fuelled stop gap has now come to an end.
4) The Middle Eastern consumers are now too busy fighting each other to think about consuming anything and are just concerned with saying alive.
5) South American and African consumers are busy struggling with economies that are disintegrating fast.
The 0.1% have nearly won.
Demand from the global consumer is dying and the global saving glut lies with the 0.1% who cannot consume anymore.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-21/global-trade-just-snapped-container-freight-rates-plummet-70-3-weeks
The 0.1% against the 99.9%, the 21st Century Thermopylae.
It's time to start fighting back, the odds are in our favour.
Have the 0.1% thought this through?
I just wonder how much Neil Howe is paying Jimbo to plug his book on a quarterly basis? He's been doing these 4th Turning Articles at least 4 times a year since I was writing on TBP in Da Old Days. lol
RE
Well that was easy.
Just make a list of people who have been screaming to undo Gramm-Leach-Bliley, and bring back the old Glass-Steagall Act restrictions...like Sens Liz Warren, Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Al Franken, D-Minn. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Richard Durbin, D-Ill.
Just call THEM a bunch of commies out one side of your mouth, and then turn around and blame the commies for the "social distress" out of the other side of your mouth.
Don't waste your time reading this as nothing new is brought forward and there is the strong whiff of neo-libertarian- Austrian economic ideological claptrap of "free markets" and "true patriotism" given just as the power elites have propangandised the last four generations of Americans with these myths of supposed American capitalistic operations that these dolts actually believe is an attainable reality......nice fucking joke....up there with there is a God and your eternal life is waiting if you behave according to the earthly interpreters of this fiction, but only after you die and can't report back.
Starts out good, but then turns into a Stefan Molyneux diatribe.
We all know how sickening "victimhood" has been played in our culture, so why continue it with the poor white male tripe, which is also a race baiting tool?
If you want to be a man, then quit acting like a victim. Don't accuse all these other groups of something, then do it yourself.
Moly's a phony balogne. He screams Government = force and then uses government force himself, via DMCA, to take down a youtube channel that criticized him. His wife almost lost her license to psychologize people in Ontario Canada because she was encouraging young men to defoo their entire family and friend set. She did this on his so-called radio show. She should have had license revoked.
Amazingly, his wife would be involved with Government, just by the nature of her job.
Good job and great insight on a wide spectrum of issues.
Happy to see people finally awakening to the fact that women have raised the boys to be little girls. Unfortunately by the late teens these sissy-boys are fully indoctrinated into the Sisterhood and can be expected to always stand with their mommies in whatever nitwit social cause comes along.
Obviously Boomer men have very little to do with little boys that perfer to stand with their mothers, and it shows in them because naturally enough, the skills valued among men weren't passed along to the ladyboys. Unfortunately, these were the skills that made America great.
Clearly apparent that not much to expect from millennials as the age of incompetence fostered by the educational system is now 47 yo and it goes up each year until finally Boomers will be gone. Then the sissy-boys now living in mommy's basement (until her Alimony Checks end) will surely go on to lead society. Huh? What? Yeah, right.
EXCELLENT POINT about the coming wars and likilihood that most millennials will be marched off as cannon fodder and probably end up in a sandy shallow unmarked grave in some distant desert. Our society needs it and history records it... the weak must culled out, and surely they will be, one way or another.
But maybe there is some reason to hope. Perhaps a situation might develop similiar to what happened after the horrors of WW1 when history records that the survivors came home with much different attitudes and abilities, primarily because the experience of facing manhood forced them to finally become men.
The Rites of Passage that should have carried Millennial boys into Manhood (but didn't) are still waiting for them on distant battlefields, and meanwhile, these wasted generations have proven yet again that there's no way to avoid the pain of becoming a Man despite what your mommies think.
At least he got this right: : "The true story is the exponential wealth increase of the .1% over the last 35 years as the financialization of the economy has enriched psychopathic, highly educated men who produce nothing but misery, debt, and ultimately social unrest."
Dead accurate. 35 years ago this month, we Americans decided to go over a cliff. All downhill since we put old Alzheimer-Rooster Neck in office. Every successor has thrown gasoline on the fire he started. Say my name...
Trump said Sgt Bergdahl should have been executed as a traitor. Maybe he's talking in code. So what about the guys behind 9/11? Someone at ZeroHedge said a while back that with the power of modern computation it should not be difficult to get an accounting in realtime of the true owners of the world's wealth. Shouldn't be too hard to find the connections.