Sipsey Street Irregulars: Fourth Turning: Crisis Of Trust

Saturday, September 12, 2015

Fourth Turning: Crisis Of Trust

I’m beginning to believe the nation will not be unified behind a common cause when the coming financial eruption unleashes molten lava of chaos, punishing economic distress, civil strife, class warfare, race wars, and ultimately global war. As Strauss and Howe foretold, the establishment (aka corporate fascist military industrial surveillance state) has seen a sequential loss of popular trust as their blatant corruption, sociopathic stranglehold on the levers of power, and unrelenting greed have angered the critical thinking aware citizens of this country. The next leg down in this Greater Depression will sever the remaining trust, disintegrating any remaining support for the existing civic order. What comes next will be heavily dependent upon whether the 5% to 10% of liberty minded believers in the Constitution are able to gain the trust of the masses. The odds will be long, but no longer than they were during that bitter winter at Valley Forge in 1777-1778.

5 comments:

Mr. Moore said...: Great article from Jim Quinn. His whole series of Fourth Turning articles are good reading.

Doing some math, from the American Revolutionary War it is about 86 years to the Civil War, then another 78 to 80 years to the Great Depression/WWII. Today it seems to me we are at about year 74 into this "cycle", and the whole world seems to be catching on fire. We certainly didn't help matters in some parts of the world.

But what is our poison going to be? Civil War II? Counter-Revolution, because imho our gov has been taken over by Socialist "busy bodies", crony capitalists and special interests. Or WWIII where no hole will be deep enough to hide in. Or a combination of all the above?

Thanks to Mike V., Jim Quinn and many, many others for shining a light on what's coming. God Bless.; September 12, 2015 at 12:47 PM
Anonymous said...: So...getting this party started sooner rather than later may not be such a bad idea, Huh!; September 12, 2015 at 5:15 PM
Backwoods Engineer said...: The morons commenting at ZH have not even read the book, and obviously don't get it.; September 12, 2015 at 8:55 PM
Mr. Moore said...: @Anon 5:15 PM, Yup, seems resonable that if something is going to go "pop", better to have that happen sooner when the forces and tensions are not banjo string tight, rather than later.; September 13, 2015 at 10:27 AM
oughtsix said...: "The morons commenting at ZH..."

No kidding. It's just a big snark fest for the most part, a contest of "wit" to see who is the most clever, iconoclastic, cynical, sardonic anarchist Of All Time!!11!!!

Short attention spans, lacking real education and Critical Thinking Deficit Disorder
(CTDD) are the order of the day in comments all over the interwebs. Coupled with narrow ideological biases (derived from exclusive reliance upon The One Theory which catalyzed their original "awakening"), the endless and fruitless shouting match of spoiled brats vying for attention is fruitless and discouraging.

Happily, I see far less of that here than in many another forum.

That's what intellectually honest leadership does for you.

Thanks, Mike.; September 13, 2015 at 11:24 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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