July 22, 2019 "
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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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Here's the sad reality: everybody in the Ruling Elites looked
the other way: all the self-described "patriots"
in the Intelligence services, all the technocrats in the Departments of
Justice, State, etc., the Pentagon, and on and on. Everybody with any power
knows the whole class of Ruling Elites is completely corrupt, by
definition: to
secure power in the U.S., you have to sell your soul to the Devil, one
way or the other.
Like all Ruling Elites, America's Elites are absolutely
confident in their power:this is hubris taken to
new heights.
That the citizenry could finally have enough of their
corrupt, self-serving Overlords does not seem in the realm of possibility to
the Protected Few.There's always a way to
lawyer-up and plea-bargain for a wrist-slap, a way to bend another "patriot"
(barf), a way to offer a bribe cloaked as a plum position in a philanthro-capitalist
NGO (non-governmental organization), and so on.
The possibility that moral outrage could spark a revolt seems
improbable in such a distracted culture, but consider the chart below: even
the most distracted, fragmented tribe of the peasantry eventually notices
that they're not in the top 1%, or the top 0.1%, and that the Ruling Elites
have overseen an unprecedented concentration of wealth and power into the
hands of the few at the expense of the many:
Our Ruling Elites have no idea how many of us already want to
see them all in prison jumpsuits, and they also
have no idea how fast the moral revulsion with their corrupt "leadership"
might spread. Scanning the distracted, consumerist rabble from the great
heights of their wealth and power, they reckon the capacity for moral
outrage is limited, leaving them safe from any domestic crusade.
They also trust that the citizenry can be further fragmented, further
distracted, and so they will continue to be invulnerable. Or worst case
scenario, a few especially venal villains will need to be sacrificed, and
then all will return to the bliss of Neofeudal exploitation.
But they may have misread the
American citizenry, just as they've misread history.
This article was
originally published by "Oftwominds"
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