America is in a topsy-turvy state. Anyone who doesn’t know that outright at least senses it. A just taken CNN poll finds that 70 percent of Americans are pessimistic about the country.
The conditions that have brought us to this state have been brewing for years. But things accelerated in 2016 with the election of Donald Trump. That was a repudiation of our decadent elite, which the high and mighty did not take lightly. This brought about an ongoing illegal coup against President Trump by Deep State government bureaucrats, which was aided and abetted by the corporate media and Democrat party. It all accumulated in the stolen election of 2020. This sordid event saddled the United States with the senile Joe Biden as president. And now America is being traumatized with the Wuhan virus, the hype of which is being used as a pretext for draconian government curtailment of our rights and freedom. Staggering as it may sound, on Thursday, this fraudulently installed president all but declared war on the 80-plus million unvaccinated Americans.
The country is discombobulated. The old rules and norms don’t seem to apply. All this turmoil brought to mind The Fourth Turning (1997). Without going into detail, authors William Strauss and Neil Howe see history as unfolding in repeatable eighty- to one-hundred-year cycles, each of which they call a saeculum. The saeculum mirrors the seasons of life, expressed as generations move through society. The culmination of a cycle is a crisis, a turning point, or a “fourth turning.” More specifically: “The Fourth Turning is a Crisis, a decisive era of secular upheaval, when the values regime propels the replacement of the old civic order with a new one.” This means that the old is swept away, preparing society for something new. From a fourth turning, there is no going back to the pre-crisis normal. A fourth turning puts society on a knife’s edge. It could literally destroy us as a nation and a people. Or it could lead to something better.
As for timing, Strauss and Howe wrote: “The saecular rhythm foretells another American Crisis in the first quarter of the twenty-first century.” Continuing: “The next Crisis era will most likely extend roughly from the middle of the Oh-Ohs to the mid-2020s. Its climax is not likely to occur before 2005 or later than 2025.”
We’re in that timeframe right now. Remember, The Fourth Turning was written in 1997.