The Fourth Turning and “All the Bad Things”

The knowledge that (Trump’s) senior strategist is an evangelist for a theory that forecasts the destruction of society as we know it is alarming.The New York Times, April 8th, 2017

Years before “Save Democracy” became a bumper sticker, The Fourth Turning became a target, preemptively labeled by people who didn’t read the book as “dangerous” because it was in the hands of “the wrong people.”

Expect LOTS of neoMarxist NPCs in the media and academia to bleat out this summer (when Neil Howe’s next book comes out) that The Fourth Turning somehow inspired everything bad that’s happened in America since 2016. It’s as simple as the Iron Law of Woke Projection: When something upsets your delicate sensibilities, blame “all the bad things.”

(As an aside: during the 2017 interview that inspired the episode you see in the link above, a hysterical caller into the NPR program On Point mentioned this website. I wonder what he’s doing now.)

Paul Zimmy Finn

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CCRider
CCRider
May 11, 2023 3:34 pm

Save democracy! Say the oligarch mouthpieces. Ask yourself why. Cui bono?

Horseless Headsman
Horseless Headsman
  CCRider
May 11, 2023 3:42 pm

Democracy is the easiest form of government to control and subvert, especially since the development of social media.

CCRider
CCRider
  Horseless Headsman
May 11, 2023 3:52 pm

That it reemerged from the dustbin of history at the turn of the 20th century led to horrendous global slaughter, the Fed and the income tax is no coincidence.

Aunt Acid
Aunt Acid
  CCRider
May 11, 2023 6:54 pm

Fuck Dimockcrazy©. We have entered the Demonocracy having made the quantum leap, from both kakistocracy and Idiocracy and while retaining both systems’ most malignant features.

TCS
TCS
  Aunt Acid
May 13, 2023 3:20 am

Oh, you people and your Venn diagrams…

overthecliff
overthecliff
May 14, 2023 2:29 pm

Keep your head down and on a swivel. Things are fixing to get real. Don’t let the snake see you and step on it when it is not looking.