By Charles Hugh Smith
July 22, 2019 "Information
Clearing House"
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Let's posit that America
will confront a Great Crisis in the next
decade. This
is the presumption of The
Fourth Turning, a 4-generational
cycle of 80 years that correlates rather
neatly with the Great Crises of the
past: 1781 (Revolutionary War,
constitutional crisis); 1861 (Civil War)
and 1941 (World War II, global war).
What will be the next
Great Crisis? Some
anticipate another great-power war,
others foresee another civil war, still
others reckon a military coup is likely,
and some view a collapse of the economy
and U.S. dollar as inevitable.
While anything's
possible, I propose a
novel crisis unlike any in the past, a
Moral Crisis in which the people
challenge the power of the nation's
corrupt Ruling Elites: not
just elected officials, but the
technocrats of the Deep State, the
vested interests pillaging the nation,
the New Overlords of Big Tech, the
financier New Nobility, the Corporate
Media and the self-serving
state/corporate technocrat Nomenklatura
who do the dirty work of the Ruling
Elites.
Divide-and-Conquer has
been the absurdly easy strategy of the
Ruling Elites to fragment and disempower
the citizenry. It's
child's play for the Ruling Elites to
ceaselessly promote a baker's dozen of
divisive issues via the corporate media,
and then watch the resulting conflicts
split the citizenry into fragmented
camps which subdivide further with every
new toxic injection.
The one issue that could
unite the fragmented citizenry is moral
revulsion: As
the Epstein case promises to reveal,
there is literally no limit on the
excesses and exploitations of the
privileged few in America, no limit on
what our Ruling Elites can do with
absolute impunity.
The Nobility of the
feudal era had some reciprocal
obligation to its serfs; our New
Nobility has no obligation to anyone but
themselves. It
is painfully obvious that there are two
sets of laws in America: bankers can rip
off billions and never serve time, and
members of the Protected Class who
sexually exploit children get a
wrist-slap, if that.
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