2a time to be born, and a
time to die;
a time to plant, and
a time to pluck up what is planted;
3a time to kill, and a
time to heal;
a time to break
down, and a time to build up;
4a time to weep, and a
time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and
a time to dance;
5a time to cast away
stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace,
and a time to refrain from embracing;
6a time to seek, and a
time to lose;
a time to keep, and
a time to cast away;
7a time to tear, and a
time to sew;
a time to keep
silence, and a time to speak;
8a time to love, and a
time to hate;
a time for war, and a time
for peace
Fourth
Turning - Detonation (Part 2)
In Part One of this article,
I discussed the dramatic events that shaped 2020 and
will continue to have a major influence on the
direction of this Fourth Turning moving forward. The
immense power of Mordor on the Potomac seems to be
unassailable, but the little people still have a
chance if they utilize their skills and intelligence
to the utmost.
Now that Trump has been
defeated and cast into oblivion by the forces of
Mordor on the Potomac, those who have some knowledge
about generational theory and the course of previous
Fourth Turnings have lamented Trump is not the Grey
Champion and they were misled by believing he was
their hero. How could he be the Grey Champion if he
lost? I do not profess to be an expert, as I am just
trying to understand the underlying forces driving
this Fourth Turning towards its climax, but losing a
battle in a long war does not disqualify Trump as a
Grey Champion. The Grey Champion character was born
from the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
“Who is this gray
patriarch? His hour is one of darkness, and adversity,
and peril. That stately form, combining the leader and
the saint…could only belong to some old champion of
the righteous cause, whom the oppressor’s drum had
summoned from his grave.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
There is not
just one Grey Champion during a Fourth Turning, and
their participation is generally as a lightening rod for
change or the inspiration for younger generations to
mobilize and fight the battles which ultimately decide
the fate of nations and empires. Samuel Adams and
Ben Franklin were Grey Champions during the American
Revolution Fourth Turning. Their fiery rhetoric and
ability to guide the younger firebrands were their
contributions to the cause.
Both Abe
Lincoln and Jeff Davis were Grey Champions during the
Civil War. One was assassinated before the conclusion of
the war and the other was on the losing side, spending a
couple years in a Federal prison after the war. FDR,
Churchill, and Stalin were all Grey Champions during the
World War II Fourth Turning. FDR died before the
conclusion of the war and Congress implemented a
two-term limit because he had become too powerful.
Churchill was on the winning side, but the British
empire disintegrated during his reign. Stalin, who had
already murdered millions of his own people, presided
over a despotic regime and immediately became the enemy
of his former allies.
Anyone with
a true grasp of history would acknowledge all these men
had significant personality faults, huge egos, a
determination to win by any means necessary (including
breaking the law and flaunting the Constitution), and
ability to mobilize forces to accomplish their goals. As
we are in the thirteenth year of this Fourth Turning and
Grey Champions always arise in the earlier stages, there
is no doubt Trump was and still is one of the Grey
Champions driving this ongoing Crisis towards its bloody
climax.
He still has
75 million or so followers, with many of them motivated
to go wherever he leads. Does this mean a new party
which would destroy the Uni-party Republican/Democrat
control over our government? Does it mean taking to the
streets and confronting the BLM and ANTIFA domestic
terrorists in armed combat? Or will he be convicted by
the Senate, thrown in jail, and financially ruined by
his failed attempt to defeat the Deep State – possibly
spurring his followers to become radicalized – matching
the narrative being pushed by the authoritarian leftist
regime now in office?
Those who
put their faith in Trump are currently in disarray. Some
feel betrayed. Others are depressed. Some are just
disappointed he was unable to drain the swamp. They
believe he just was not up to the task. Some think he
was installed by the Deep State to lure a segment of the
country into revealing their allegiances so they can be
de-programmed and/or forced to grovel for forgiveness by
pledging allegiance to the permanent party run by
authoritarian billionaire oligarchs.
The
accusations and recriminations within the Republican
party will surely tear it apart, especially if GOP
Senators join Schumer and McConnell in convicting Trump
of creating an insurrection. Of course, there are still
diehard believers this is just part of the plan and
Trump will emerge victorious over senile Joe and his
Deep State handlers. Others hope he will run again in
2024, vanquishing his foes and once again making America
great again again. It is unlikely that someone with
Trump’s ego and desire for attention will just fade into
the sunset. He will continue to be a lightning rod,
impacting the future course of this Fourth Turning, as
one of the Grey Champions.
As I survey
the landscape there are a few other major players who
also fit the Grey Champion prophet archetype and will
certainly play a key role in the forthcoming climactic
scenes of this Fourth Turning. On the domestic front
Bill Gates has emerged from the shadows during this
scamdemic, using his immense wealth and power to push
for global vaccinations with experimental DNA altering
formulas never used on human beings before. His agenda
coincides with Klaus Schwab’s Great Reset new world
order.
The Clintons
are both Boomers who have functioned as the Jeff Davis
to Trump over the last four years, participating and
leading the Deep State coup by pushing the Russiagate
fabrications to distract from their traitorous criminal
acts. Crooked Hillary is ecstatic over deposing Trump
and now is leading the effort to bury him. At this stage
of the Fourth Turning, it appears Gates and the Clintons
are winning, as they have the complete backing of the
Deep State, Silicon Valley billionaire tyrants, and the
globalist billionaires like Soros.
The two Grey
Champions who will most certainly play a part in the
second half of this Fourth Turning, when blood is likely
to be shed in vast quantities, are Vlad Putin and Xi
Jinping. These ruthless dictators have no fear of losing
an election or having to deal with a hostile media. The
Deep State has been pushing conflict with Russia for
Trump’s entire term and continue to push a nuclear power
through NATO and vassals in the Middle East.
The
intensifying engagements between China and Taiwan, with
the U.S. sailing an aircraft carrier force into the
South China Sea, and ongoing tensions over trade and
spying, have ratcheted up the chances of armed conflict
between these nuclear super-powers. Fourth Turnings
always plunge into total war, with an inescapable
conclusion as to who won and who lost. Defeat means
total surrender. The only question is what Pearl Harbor
or Fort Sumter moment kicks off the festivities in the
foreseeable future.
Based on the
first three weeks of this year and what appears to be on
the short-term horizon, I am confident the term
“detonation” will apply to this fateful year. The
intensity level has already reached 10 but is headed up
to 11.
As Fourth
Turnings go the 80-year cycle would certainly argue for
substantial conflict to erupt in 2021. In 1781, the
Battle of Yorktown concluded with Cornwallis
surrendering to General Washington and concluding the
armed struggle of the American Revolution, insuring the
birth of a new nation.
Exactly 80
years later in 1861, Southern states seceded from the
Union and formed the Confederate States of America.
Lincoln needed to sneak into Washington DC to avoid an
assassination attempt in Baltimore. Fort Sumter was
attacked and surrendered to Confederate forces. The
First Battle of Bull Run resulted in a resounding
Confederate victory and led Lincoln to institute a draft
and an income tax. Over 600,000 men died in the next
four years.
Exactly 80
years later in 1941, while Hitler was riding roughshod
across Europe and turning his attention towards Russia,
the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor after FDR cut off
their oil supply to provoke an attack. Tens of millions
died over the next four years. It is now exactly 80
years later. One must ponder what potential tragedy
awaits our nation and the world?
With the
elevation of a vacuous disorientated Trojan horse to the
presidency, controlled by dark forces pulling the
strings of their puppet, we are already experiencing
many of the things Strauss and Howe warned about in
their 1997 prophecy.
“Institutions will be increasingly bossy,
limiting personal freedoms, chastising bad manners,
and cleansing the culture. Powerful new civic
organizations will make judgments about which
individual rights deserve respect and which do not.
Criminal justice will become swift and rough,
trampling on some innocents to protect an endangered
and desperate society from those feared to be guilty.
Expect a loss of personal privacy. Fourth Turnings can
be dark times for the free spirit: Just as one kind of
official may have new authority to do something for
you, another kind—some hastily deputized
magistrate—may have new authority to do something to
you.”
They were
not predicting specifics but could decipher an outline
of our future through the fog, by observing previous
Fourth Turnings. The limitations of personal freedoms
are being implemented by totalitarian politicians, with
the Big-Tech surveillance censorship overlords used to
enforce the directives of those running the show, while
trampling on the 1st Amendment and the right of
citizens to voice dissenting opinions. Those who have
seized power are now criminalizing any view not fitting
their approved narrative and painting all Trump
supporters as white supremacists.
These
threats of retribution, while concurrently peddling
nonsense about national unity, have the potential to
backfire and blow up in their faces. Instead of unity,
the impeachment of a president no longer in office and
attempts to provoke violence by Trump supporters in
order to usher in the pre-written 20,000 page Domestic
Terror Patriot Act 2.0 is pushing the country towards
civil war. The misuse of justice and criminalizing the
acts of those exercising their right to live their lives
will ignite a firestorm threatening to spread across the
nation, with unknown long-term consequences.
I will not
pretend to know what comes next, but I am sure the three
key factors driving this crisis since 2008: debt, civic
decay, and global disorder will continue to coalesce
into a lethal concoction, destined to sweep away the
underpinnings of the American Empire, ushering in a new
social order. I think the repressive measures being
implemented by Pelosi, Schumer, despot Democrat
governors, and government apparatchiks are a sign of
weakness and fear. Their bluster, threats, fear
mongering and denunciation of half the voters in the
country, portray a precarious fragility, with a
dangerous agenda built on a foundation of deception and
delusion.
A madness is
gripping the nation, a dismal realization nothing is
right. Everything has a chaotic feel, as financial
markets surpass bubble territory into uncharted waters;
politicians threaten and accuse each other of treasonous
acts; government overreach and dysfunction is laid bare
for all to see; the Deep State has been exposed as their
coup to take down Trump required them to step out of the
shadows; a manufactured race war led by BLM and ANTIFA
useful idiots at the behest of Soros and his ilk
continues to fester; Russia and China continue to
undermine U.S. hegemony; and the global debt Ponzi
scheme has entered its blow-off road to ruin phase.
The only
thing keeping these financial markets at these
outrageously elevated levels is an irrational level of
misplaced trust in their puppet Powell and his feckless
Fed cronies. When, not if, these markets begin to
cascade downward and greed turns to fear, an implosion
of institutional and societal trust will remove the
final underpinnings of this unsustainable financial
paradigm.
The Wall
Street QE addicts and their captured central banker drug
dealers were able to exploit the concocted “Covid
Crisis” as cover for an already imploding financial
system with the injection of $4 trillion of heroin into
their veins and the assurance of trillions more. Anyone
using reason and rational thought knows this debt
solvency fantasy is destined for a disastrous
denouement. If it happens in 2021, this year will surely
go down in history.
This
combustible amalgamation of unpayable debt, civic
anarchy, and global chaos are poised to detonate in
2021, initiating a period of maximum darkness, death,
destruction, and momentous choices. We are being
propelled towards a climax which will mark the death of
the old order and the birth of a new. The question is
whether the new order will be better or worse for
average Americans.
With the
newly installed totalitarian regime in Washington DC, it
appears they plan to implement full government control
over every aspect of our lives, with the final
eradication of the 1st, 2nd, and 4th Amendments
as the stick and unlimited government checks as the
carrot. Their classification and treatment of 75 million
Americans as the enemy will accomplish the task of
converting them into a real enemy.
There
will be lone wolves who use violent means to fight
back. Others will go Galt and starve the beast. Others
may organize into like minded communities and dare the
authorities to trample on their freedoms and
liberties. It will be difficult to control 75 million
angry, heavily armed, dis-enfranchised deplorables.
The new regime is led by arrogant, hubristic, mediocre
minded bureaucrats who are incapable of using anything
but brutality to get there way.
Their
grasp on power is fragile and a determined strategic
minded resistance will hit them where they are
weakest, sabotaging commerce, communications, the
power grid, and their social media propaganda arm. At
this point in 2021 it looks bleak for lovers of
liberty, but the fight has just begun.
The
coming deadly reckoning of this Fourth Turning will
require tremendous courage, guile, personal sacrifice,
dreadful alternatives, survival skills, intelligence,
strategic thinking, and an audacity to win at all
costs. Those still caught in the mindset of voting in
good guys to change the outcome are delusional, as the
outcome of this past election confirmed voting does
not matter.
There
are wealthy, powerful, sociopath, globalist oligarchs
who constitute the real power in this world and unless
they are confronted and defeated, the outcome of this
Fourth Turning will result in a dark future for
humanity and the final obliteration of our
Constitution. There is no way to avoid the coming
conflict. Sides must be chosen. You will not be able
to sit this one out. They will come for you, whether
you like it or not.
Based
upon history, the ultimate resolution will not be
based on compromise, civility, persuasion, or
nonviolent means. Our world will be shaken to its very
foundation and transformed in unknowable ways over the
next decade. Winter has arrived with a ferocity born
of the deceptions of powerful men, and we will need to
marshal all our strength and fortitude to survive the
coming tempests. The fury of the Crisis will
eventually exhaust itself and result in a positive or
destructive aftermath. History offers no guidance or
assurances as to the outcome. That will be entirely up
to us. Godspeed and good luck.
“If
civic virtue is so frequently lost, it must be just
as frequently regained. This is what happens in a
Fourth Turning. While a Crisis mood renders
societies newly desperate, it also renders them
newly capable, which is why a saecular winter is to
be welcomed as much as feared. As today’s Americans
look ahead, the challenge is to marshal the coming
season’s new public energies to achieve positive,
not destructive ends. The better we ready ourselves
collectively the more likely we will be not just to
survive the Crisis but to apply its fury for good
and humane purposes.” – Strauss & Howe – The
Fourth Turning