As
this vitriolic, unpredictable, outrageously entertaining presidential campaign
enters its final stages I find myself pondering what happens next. I was
reminded of the last scene in the 1972 movie, The Candidate. The movie is about
a young untested non-politician candidate for U.S. Senator in California who
puts his fate in the hands of a veteran political operative and overcomes a
double digit polling deficit to win a huge upset victory. His entire focus
during the campaign was to win. In the final scene of the movie he is standing
among the celebrating campaign staffers and the fawning press corp. with a
befuddled look on his face. He grabs his political consultant campaign manager
and pulls him into a room. As the press break into the room he asks, “What do
we do now?” The question goes unanswered and the movie ends.
The
chattering class on the boob tube is enthralled and aghast at every seizure,
collapse, and deplorable comment by the two most disliked presidential
candidates in U.S. history. The establishment and their corporate media
mouthpieces are perplexed and irate that Donald Trump has overcome their
propaganda campaign to be leading in the polls with 51 days to go. He is a
non-politician who was behind by double digits in the polls a month ago. He
hired professional political operatives who have molded his message, while his
opponent has been lying about her health, lying about selling access while
Secretary of State, and denigrating blue collar middle class Americans in
campaign speeches. The momentum is clearly in his favor and absent a major
gaffe during the debates he could win an unlikely come from behind victory in
November.
No
one knows for sure what will happen over the next 43 days to impact the outcome
of this highly improbable race between a reality TV star parody and a walking
corpse propped up by her establishment cronies in the media, Wall Street,
military industrial complex and smoke filled backrooms of D.C. The sole focus
of both campaigns is to disparage and destroy their opponent. The negative
attack ads will fill TV screens 24/7 for the remainder of this scorched earth
fight to the death. The debates will be nasty and venomous, with accusations
being hurled maliciously and with gusto. The corporate press corp., being the
mouthpieces for the establishment, has done their utmost to scorn, ridicule and
attempt to derail Trump’s march to the presidency.
They
are shocked and stunned by the failure of their propaganda campaign. The basket
of deplorables not inhabiting the liberal bastions of NYC, Washington DC, LA
and SF are ignoring the unabashed media crusade to destroy Trump. Trust in the
dying legacy media is at all-time lows. The linear thinking establishment has
failed to acknowledge the cyclical nature of history and will now reap the
whirlwind of consequences for their corrupt, greedy, traitorous actions.
The
myopic media is so fixated on the minutia and trivialities related to the
terribly flawed personalities of these Boomer candidates ascending to the
throne of the American empire, they fail to step back and understand the real
dynamics at work. When you comprehend the undercurrents of history it allows
you to interpret the current mood of the electorate using the perspective of
the Fourth Turning. This election is taking place in the eighth year of a
crisis period which is likely to last through the next decade. Written in 1996,
Strauss & Howe’s opus has been eerily prescient in predicting the start of
and progression of the fourth crisis period in America history, all separated
by approximately 80 years – a long human life.
“The
next Fourth Turning is due to begin shortly after the new millennium, midway
through the Oh-Oh decade. Around the year 2005, a sudden spark will catalyze a
Crisis mood. Remnants of the old social order will disintegrate. Political and
economic trust will implode. Real hardship will beset the land, with severe
distress that could involve questions of class, race, nation and empire. The
very survival of the nation will feel at stake. Sometime before the year 2025,
America will pass through a great gate in history, commensurate with the
American Revolution, Civil War, and twin emergencies of the Great Depression
and World War II.” –
Strauss & Howe
– The Fourth Turning
This
Crisis was catalyzed by the housing bubble that reached its peak in 2005,
leading to the worldwide financial collapse in September 2008. There is no
denying a Crisis mood overtook the country in 2008 and after a temporary lull
brought about by the unprecedented money printing scheme by the Federal Reserve
and central bankers across the globe, the mood has been darkening rapidly as
this election approaches. The fabric of the country is being shredded along
racial, class, religious and party lines, as real hardship spreads across the land.
The
Soros backed Black Lives Matter has turned into a domestic terrorist
organization spurring young black men to ambush and slaughter police officers
and innocent bystanders. Radicalized Islamic terrorists are committing mass
murder, setting off bombs, and attacking non-believers. The corporate oligarch
class, the Wall Street cabal, and their puppets at the Federal Reserve have
effectively impoverished and destroyed the working middle class. Both political
parties have shown their true corrupt colors as anti-establishment candidates
Sanders and Trump generated enthusiastic support to the chagrin of the party
bosses.
As
we approach the midpoint of this Fourth Turning the regeneracy propelling the
next phase appears to be an anti-establishment tsunami of epic proportions
engulfing the nation and sweeping away the existing social order in a torrent
of bile, venom, accusations and the shrieks of social justice warriors.
Hillary’s deplorables are committed to expurgating the institutional cancer
pulsating through every corpuscle of this terminally ill empire of debt.
Taking
back control of a country, which has been captured in a silent coup by Deep
State players of both parties, liberal and conservative ideologies, and
corporate interests, has become a relentless quest of the debased and defrauded
middle class. The Deep State traitors are driven solely by an unquenchable
thirst for wealth, power and control, regardless of the impact on average
Americans.
The
darkening mood of the country has cast a shadow over this election, as the
corrupt political establishment and their corporate media collaborators are
failing in their unrelenting propaganda campaign to destroy Trump. The
“experts”, pollsters, and pundits are shocked and appalled that a loud mouthed
non-politician TV personality could possibly be on the verge of winning the
presidency.
These
linear thinkers can’t understand why their playbook of lies, misinformation,
pointless social justice issues and a myriad of other inane distractions aren’t
working this time. They fail to acknowledge that history is cyclical and we’ve
entered the phase when generational cohorts are aligned for dramatic sweeping
change. The data is there for all to see, but those benefiting from the current
perverted paradigm will not be swept aside without a bloody fight.
Based
on recent Gallup polls, the establishment probably realizes they’ve gone too
far, but their insatiable desire for mammon and supremacy over the levers of
finance, politics, and corporate share cropping, has blinded them to the
reality of the devastation they’ve wrought on Main Street America. Average
American families have seen their standard of living relentlessly driven into
the ground by Federal Reserve created inflation designed to benefit their fraud
loving Wall Street benefactors, greedy corporate executives, and psychopath
politicians who’ve promised voters $200 trillion more than they can deliver.
Good paying blue collar jobs have been shipped overseas by Ivy League MBA CEO’s
who use wage arbitrage models to calculate how to optimize their stock price
and executive bonuses. This is why the real median household income is lower
than it was in 1999 and about equal to what it was in 1989.
For
those not occupying academic ivory towers or gleaming office palaces in
downtown Manhattan, life in the trenches is brutal, back breaking and
untenable. With no wage growth in a quarter of a century, crushing healthcare
costs due to Obamacare, rents skyrocketing as home prices have been
artificially boosted to save Wall Street bankers, government run education and
financing leading to a millennial debt crisis, and a Federal Reserve destroying
the finances of senior citizens, savers, pension plans, and bondholders, how
could anyone other than myopic oligarchs and their cronies expect average
Americans to keep taking it without fighting back?
Is
it any wonder that 73% of Americans are dissatisfied with the way things are
going in the country? This is a massive decline from the 71% satisfied readings
of the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. Do you think this might have something to
do with the depressionary economic conditions being experienced by the majority
of Americans since 2001?
Considering
the Wall Street banking cabal has been ransacking, pillaging and defrauding the
American people since 2000 with their fabricated internet boom and the largest
control fraud in world history – their mortgage/housing Ponzi scheme, it is entirely
logical for tens of millions of hard working Americans in flyover country to be
outraged and ready to throw the bums out. The propagandists who have worked
tirelessly to consciously and systematically manipulate the public mind through
social engineering in government controlled public schools, mass media
messaging, and the constant use of fear by government apparatchiks, believe
their control of these societal mechanisms is beneficial for our country and
the world.
This
“invisible government”, the true ruling power in this country, has used their
Bernaysian propaganda techniques to mold the minds, desires, beliefs, ideas,
and tastes of the masses for decades, but they’ve gone too far, stolen too
much, and pushed the average American to the brink. The middle class is
steadily being destroyed, along with hope for a better tomorrow, as reflected
in Gallup polling data.
The
former middle class citizens of this country aren’t sure who screwed them over
because they have been busy trying to make a living, while simultaneously being
distracted by iGadgets, 700 cable TV stations, social media, sports and myriad
of other bread and circus diversions. They’ve been brainwashed to believe the
two organized political parties offer them a choice. The two parties are
co-conspirators in the creation of this welfare/warfare empire of debt.
Since
2000, we’ve had eight years of a Republican president, eight years of a
Democrat president, with both parties having control of Congress at various
points over the sixteen years. The national debt, after 211 years of this
country’s existence, was $5.7 trillion in 2000. Both parties are responsible
for the 342% increase over the last sixteen years to $19.5 trillion. Democrats
agreed to never ending warfare in exchange for Republican support for an
expansion of the entitlement state. Meanwhile, the country’s GDP only rose 79%
over the same time frame.
The
puppet politicians in Washington D.C. have only done what their “invisible
government” puppeteers have instructed them to do. They don’t answer to the
voters or their local constituents. They answer to Wall Street bankers, the
military industrial complex, mega-corporation CEOs, and shadowy billionaire
oligarchs who fund their corrupt existence. These feckless politician hacks
could never have added $13.8 trillion to the national debt in the last sixteen
years and run the country’s unfunded welfare liabilities to $200 trillion
without the Wall Street controlled privately owned Federal Reserve manning the
printing presses and manipulating interest rates to enrich their “invisible
government” benefactors. They have inflated away 97% of the dollar’s purchasing
power since their shadowy creation in 1913. They are single biggest reason real
wages have not advanced since 1971. They are the reason the top 0.1% now have
the highest percentage of the national wealth since 1929.
Make
no mistake about it, everything the Federal Reserve has done since the Wall
Street created worldwide financial collapse in 2008 has been to benefit their
Too Big To Trust Wall Street owners, the rich and powerful oligarchs, and the
biggest borrowers on the planet – the U.S., Japan and EU governments. The $3.8
trillion of QE was funneled into the vaults of the Wall Street bankers so they
could pretend their insolvent balance sheets were solvent. The true purpose was
to drive stock prices higher in order to subsidize Wall Street, corporate
executives, and the .01% who own most of the stocks, while giving the appearance
of economic recovery.
The
inflation created by QE drove the middle class standard of living lower as
energy, food, rent, home prices, health insurance, tuition costs and taxes rose
relentlessly. Wall Street and their establishment crony capitalist parasites
hit the jackpot in this rigged game, while Main Street lost again. The
Fed’s easy money policies are why since 1999 home prices have risen 76% while
household median real income has fallen by over 1%. Pricing millennials out of
the housing market has led to the lowest home ownership rate since 1965.
Luckily,
the Fed and Wall Street concocted a scheme whereby Wall Street used the free
money provided by the Fed to buy up millions of foreclosed homes at fire sale
prices and rent them back to the poor schlubs who had been recently evicted by
the very same Wall Street banks. The engineered shortage of home inventory led
to soaring rent costs for everyone. This is called winning by the
establishment.
Reducing
interest rates to 0% again benefited those with the most debt: Wall Street
banks, mega-corporations, and the U.S. government. It destroyed the finances of
senior citizens living off their savings, penalized people for saving, and
incentivized heavily indebted consumers to borrow more. How did allowing Wall
Street banks to borrow at 0% so they could charge consumers 15% on credit card
balances and 6% on auto loans benefit consumers? Did the government enslaving
young people in $1.3 trillion of student loan debt with only low paying service
jobs available at graduation, benefit anyone other than for profit diploma
mills?
The
Fed supposedly instituted their ZIRP as an emergency measure during an economic
conflagration not seen since the Great Depression. According to the government
and the Fed, we are now in the seventh year of an economic recovery with low
unemployment, record corporate profits, household income jumping the most in
history, and the stock market at all-time highs. If this fantasy narrative was
true, the Fed’s discount rate would be 3% to 4% – not .25%. We are lost in a
blizzard of lies.
At
this point in the cycle only the truly cognitively deficient, Ivy League professors
and lapdogs for the ruling class believe the tripe, disguised as government
sanctioned economic data, being peddled by those desperately trying to retain
hegemony over the country. The real people living in the real world know
unemployment is not 4.9%, but north of 15%. They know inflation is not really
1.1%, but north of 5%. They know GDP is a warped measure of economic health, as
soaring healthcare expenditures boosts it and using a real measure of inflation
would reveal recessionary readings. They know Obamacare has driven their health
insurance costs higher and made their care worse. They know “free trade”
agreements like NAFTA and TPP result in their jobs being shipped overseas by
corporate conglomerates. They know taxes and government fees ceaselessly march
higher. They know the government has spent $4 trillion conducting an unwinnable
war on terror by waging undeclared wars around the world and we’re less safe
than we were in 2001.
Our
leaders have made all the wrong choices. The American people have allowed a
small cabal of powerful deceitful men to stealthily capture the financial,
economic, political and social levers of power in this nation. The result will
be depression, violence and ultimately war.
“History
offers no guarantees. If America plunges into an era of depression or violence
which by then has not lifted, we will likely look back on the 1990s as the
decade when we valued all the wrong things and made all the wrong choices.” – Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning
The
darkening angry mood in the country is self-evident. Race relations are
deteriorating rapidly. Cops are increasingly seen as the enemy or just revenue
generating shakedown artists for their establishment bosses. Home grown Islamic
radicals have been inspired by ISIS and other Muslim terrorist organizations
(created, funded, and armed by the U.S. government) to slaughter the American
infidels, while our government actively attempts to allow more into our
country.
As
Snowden revealed, the Deep State has created a surveillance state because they
see “the people” as the enemy. They realize the militizaration of police forces
and conducting military assault exercises in U.S. cities is not to protect
them, but to protect the Deep State. The social justice red herrings are meant
to distract the populace and keep them chasing their tails, while the looting
and pillaging of the nation’s wealth continues unabated.
Honest,
hard-working, traditional, family oriented households, not ensconced in the
liberal elite bastions of NYC, DC, LA, or SF, have lost trust in politicians
and their fellow Americans. The largest percentage of Americans in history
distrusts all politicians and the government institutions run by these corrupt
sycophants. Conservatives think liberals are brain dead. Liberals think
conservatives have no heart. The social fabric of the nation is in tatters.
There
is absolutely no desire for compromise on any issue. The insurgent crusades of
Sanders on the left and Trump on the right have shattered establishment
illusions they could continue to hand pick captured cronies who would do their
bidding. The linear thinkers in the mainstream media are stunned their
propaganda campaign to destroy Trump and elevate the choice of the
establishment – Clinton – has failed miserably. It shouldn’t be a surprise
based upon the Gallup polling data.
With
an ongoing depression for the majority of American households, extreme
dissatisfaction with the course of the country, and complete distrust of
establishment politicians, it would be highly unlikely for the people to select
the ultimate corrupt establishment lackey as their next president. While Trump
draws tens of thousands to his rallies, low energy sickly Clinton can barely
fill a high school gymnasium.
Despite
outspending Trump 10 to 1 on negative ads, Trump is either leading or tied in
national and key state polls. Considering the establishment controlled media is
probably skewing the polls and the huge silent majority isn’t telling the
truth, Trump’s lead is probably larger than being reported. The panic among the
Wall Street, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley elite is palpable. The anger and
disillusionment of the majority is being channeled by Trump in a crusade to
sweep away the existing social order. There is no escaping the Fourth Turning.
“Don’t
think you can escape the Fourth Turning the way you might today distance
yourself from news, national politics, or even taxes you don’t feel like
paying. History warns that a Crisis will reshape the basic social and economic
environment that you now take for granted. The Fourth Turning necessitates the
death and rebirth of the social order. It is the ultimate rite of passage for
an entire people, requiring a luminal state of sheer chaos whose nature and
duration no one can predict in advance.” – Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning
Unless
the Deep State can rig the election or arrange for something unfortunate to
befall Mr. Trump, we are likely to have a president Trump on November 8. When
viewed within the context of the Fourth Turning, it is entirely logical that a
cocksure Prophet Generation leader would emerge as a response to the
anti-establishment regeneracy mood surging across the land. Being a libertarian
minded realist, I realize the coming challenges will not be met with less
government intervention, less government spending, or less money printing by
the Federal Reserve. The era of procrastination and half measures is over.
“The
era of procrastination, of half measures, of soothing and baffling expedience
of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of
consequences.” – Winston
Churchill
Donald
Trump and the country he will lead will be dining on a banquet of consequences
for the remainder of this Fourth Turning. Trump has been a master of sound
bites. The “Make America Great” slogan has resonated with the masses, but
slogans won’t pay the interest on the $20 trillion national debt, make good on
$200 trillion of unfunded entitlement liabilities, honor government pension
plans that are $4 trillion underfunded, or turn $1 trillion annual deficits into
surpluses. No candidate has ever been elected by promising to cut entitlements
and asking the voters to tighten their belts and be prepared to sacrifice. They
promise them more goodies.
Trump
has promised to cut corporate and personal income taxes. Who doesn’t like lower
taxes? He will cut regulations. Sounds good. He will expand government
childcare subsidies. Sounds expensive. Not a peep about Social Security,
Medicare, or defense spending. In fact, Trump declares he will rebuild the
military. Cutting taxes and regulations, while starting a trade war, will not
pay for itself.
Deficits,
which are already on automatic pilot to reach $1 trillion in the next few
years, will be driven higher. Voodoo economics didn’t work in the 1980s and it
won’t work now. This isn’t a TV reality show where the happy ending can be
scripted. I picture Trump making his glorious acceptance speech at 11:00 pm on
November 8, striding backstage after the speech, turning to Steve Bannon and
asking, “What do we do now?”
When
I started writing articles about the economy, banks, military industrial
complex and corrupt politicians back in 2008, I still naively believed the
system could be changed from within. I thought Ron Paul’s vision could save the
country. But after watching politicians double the national debt, TARP passed
by corrupt politicians of both parties when 90% of their constituents were
against it, not one criminal banker prosecuted for the biggest fraud in world
history, a president waging undeclared wars all over the world, a national
healthcare plan passed against the wishes of the people, and a rogue Federal
Reserve implementing disastrous monetary schemes to enrich Wall Street while
throwing seniors under the bus, I realized this rigged system is unfixable.
Trump
may have the best intentions, but he will be foiled at every turn by his
enemies in both parties, along with the ingrained establishment government
apparatchiks running the hundreds of useless government agencies. The media
will skewer his every statement. Wall Street and corporate America will
threaten his agenda if it negatively impacts them in any way. The “invisible
government” might decide it’s time to pull the rug out from beneath the
overvalued markets, resulting in a crash. The civil chaos is likely to spread
as Soros funds the violence. He will be tested by foreign powers. The Middle
East is guaranteed to explode in chaotic violence.
Trump
may have second thoughts about taking the helm of U.S. Titanic after it has
already hit the iceberg. History is cyclical and we are only halfway through
this Fourth Turning. The risk of catastrophe over the next decade is high. I
have studied history and believe we will be confronted with economic, social,
and military upheaval on par with the Great Depression/World War II crisis and
the Civil War crisis. We are doomed to repeat history, whether we’ve studied it
or not, because human failings span across the ages. Whether we meet the deadly
challenges ahead will decide the fate of our country.
“The
risk of catastrophe will be very high. The nation could erupt into insurrection
or civil violence, crack up geographically, or succumb to authoritarian rule.
If there is a war, it is likely to be one of maximum risk and effort – in other
words, a total war. Every Fourth Turning has registered an upward ratchet in
the technology of destruction, and in mankind’s willingness to use it.” – Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning
