QOTD: HOW WILL THIS FOURTH TURNING END?

The “American crisis” will not lost until 2030 because America will not last until 2030. —ken

For a very good historical series on how 4th Turnings really did end I would suggest the 14 videos produced by the young British historian Paul Cook – Fall of Civilizations. The guy does an excellent job at setting the geographic, climate, and political contexts leading up to the fall and extinction of each civilization featured. They are long – sometimes 3-1/2 hours – so there is an investment of time involved.

Here is the Youtube search query link –
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fall+of+civilization+podcast

I’ll take the optimistic track. After a long period of unbelievable death and privation humans will finally come to understand that rule by coercion, force, and intimidation is evil. Governance will evolve into local and separate voluntary associations with like-minded individuals. Perhaps Europe from the end of the Napoleonic wars until WW1 is the correct model. Separate city-states were formed that provided peace and prosperity for that entire century. All the currencies were interchangeable precious metals, goods, and people flowed unhampered. If it happened then it can happen again.

The constant doom and gloom make us all defeatist and cowardly. Life on earth has always been dangerous and frightening. It’s just our turn in the barrel. Suck it up and be determined.

The pendulum never stops in the middle. So while we are on the wide swing to the crazy left, it is entirely possible we can end up on the wide swing to the crazy right. Think Handmaid’s Tale + Children of Men crazy.
Every action has an equal, opposite reaction. It won’t happen overnight, but when people are oppressed by one side, the unfortunately look to the exact opposite side to “solve the problem”.
Humans are ever reactionary and irrational creatures. Our emotions make us what and who we are, but they also make us vulnerable to charismatic, dangerous people with “ideas”.
Can we be sensible this time? We had a period of sensibility that brought us through the Revolutionary war. It was a blip in the stream of time and then we forgot all about our ideals and started acting like idiots again, or letting idiots act for us. Whatever the case may be, human sensibility is pretty much not a guarantee no matter how bad the decisions were that got us to crazy town in the first place.
One thing IS pretty much guaranteed though. Nature abhors both a vacuum and central planning, so all the Mordor dwellers may think they got this in the bag…but Law of Unintended Consequences tends to throw its lot in with Ma Nature and together they can wreak havoc on the best laid plans.
Evil tends to be such a caricature I find it amusing how anyone can take them seriously. So they carry all the guns and swagger around with the full force of the military and police behind them. Until suddenly they don’t. The White Russians learned that the hard way for sure. Marie and her minions also minced around for quite a while until it was decided their bodies would be sans heads.
Anyone can try and Alinsky the whole thing into some gender-neutral blender of pink hair and pregnant men with a giant “woman” on a swim team, but eventually it all becomes so absolutely ridiculous that no one will even pay attention anymore.
The coming Hunger Games may be the final straw and push the populace into waking up. Mass starvation+ people with guns generally do not tolerate said starvation for very long. Hey Bill, good luck holding onto all that farmland.

The world is ripe for the antichrist to make his entrance into the world just after the born-again Christians are raptured into heaven which I believe will be very soon (as in probably this year before the end of September and it won’t be by outer space beings). The antichrist will make a seven year treaty with Israel and the Jews will rebuild their temple and three and a half years later he will renege on the treaty and will go into the temple and proclaim himself to be God. At that point the Jews and any new post-rapture Christian believers will be persecuted like never before. God’s wrath will be poured out on all the wickedness of the world in ever more intense events until Jesus comes back at the end of the seven year Tribulation. Jesus will bind Satan from influencing the world and establish His worldwide kingdom with Jerusalem as the capitol city and will clean up the world administering true justice for all of mankind during the 1000 year Millennium Kingdom age. Satan will be released at the end of 1000 years and will rally an army to fight against Jesus, but Christ destroys the antichrist and his army sending Satan into the Lake of Fire. This is a fight between good and evil and in the end God wins. We are now living in the days that were like Noah (genetic manipulation of human DNA) and Lot (sexual perversion and immorality) so we know the Rapture is imminent especially given the current technology which will enable a one-world government dictator to control the people. Be sure you are on the winning side and get to know God’s son, Jesus Christ, before it is too late. There is no human savior to fix this corrupt world and we must focus on God in order to be saved.

Garbage people eating bug burgers in a cubicle down by the train tracks while the US Army chases good ol’ boys all around Appalachia and elsewhere

In short, nothing good

It started 5 years ago, when there was almost no food left on the shelves that one week before Thanksgiving. On TV, they said that it was the rich people who had bought up all of it for their family feasts. With horror, we saw on TV how an angry mob of 200 mostly black people stormed Johns Hopkins hospital, killed 31 cafeteria staff, security personnel and random bystanders, ransacked the cafeteria and destroyed much of the first and second floor of the hospital because there was not enough food.

Three days later, the same had happened in over 50 hospitals in the US. Since then, all of the hospitals in the US were on permanent lockdown, stopped treating patients other than emergencies, but many nurses and doctors still refused to show up to work. At that time, I took our kids and left our mostly white affluent suburban home. We had plans A, B and C in place, and even plans A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3, C1, C2 and C3. We went with plan B2, and not a day too early, because that is when the violence spread from hospitals to urban and suburban neighborhoods. Two years ago they had made possession of guns illegal and about 30 million guns had been turned in. Every day, there were new reports of hungry mobs of people heading toward the areas that they perceived to be “the rich people’s towns”. They looted, burned down the homes and brutally murdered the homeowners if they did not have enough food.

A friend texted us that our own house had been looted and the contents destroyed or taken, but at least it wasn’t burnt down. The neighbors next door had fled to their vacation home in the Berkshires. The neighbors across the street, whose cat we used to feed when they went on vacation and who always had a BLM sign on the lawn had been murdered and their bodies left on the front lawn.

In the last 6 months or so, things have calmed down. You have to understand how life changed in the last 5 years: it only started as I described above. Within just a few days, armed militias formed in every affluent neighborhood, where people lived who had homes they did not want to leave or lose. Any intruder who did not belong there was asked to leave, and was killed on the spot if he caused trouble. Over time, these neighborhoods were fortified and became more organized, with patrols, fences, leaders and rules. They also grew in size. If you were on the outside, socially or geographically, you could not get in unless you brought something that was needed. You were vetted carefully and someone had to vouch for you if you wanted to become part of it.

Once you became part of the neighborhood/village, if you broke any of the rules or betrayed anybody, you were publicly executed for even the most minor infraction such as stealing a tomato out of the community provisions.

Many perished, mostly those that were outside of a neighborhood when they fought with each other. Some killed themselves. Relatively few died when the roaming mobs confronted the neighborhoods in order to gain access to their supplies. Overall, about 200 million died in the United States alone.

Since the fighting has died down over the last 6 months, our leaders are seeking out other neighborhood leaders in order to combine resources and collaborate. We think that we might form an alliance with a group of people 1500 miles east, because they have a different topography of land and also have a lot of masons in their midst, while we have more nurses and woodworkers.

I can’t even imagine what is going to happen. Every time I try to predict I am mostly wrong. I have been stunned how quickly the left, once they seized power in 2020, have been able to mess up America and the world. A minority trying to suppress a majority never works. Especially when the majority is armed. The fact the constitution exists is really upsetting the left. They have jacked up the economy pretty bad with energy prices and other stuff leading to inflation. They face a devastating election in 2022 except they are going to cheat again. That may be the end. Another blatantly stolen election may be enough to force normal people to take action. The level of fraud that will be required in 2022 for the left to remain in power will just be too much to tolerate. 2000 Mules blew the 2020 election wide open. A lot of people are watching the movie. If Yuma AZ is able to verify the movie results there will be more action taken. I am waiting to see what happens there.