What Lurks Around the Corner?

We are Being Herded

Most of us can feel it. There is something in the air. Big changes are coming. Millions of Americans high on the power of positive thinking were shocked out of their normalcy bias by the assassination of Charlie Kirk and now realize how tumultuous these times are.

There are plenty of folks who will be surprised by severe, radical changes when they come. Of course they will dismiss info like what I’m about to share as conspiracy theory and doom-posting. They will continue to do so right up until their own circumstances make it impossible to deny what is happening. Their incredulity is irrelevant in the Grand Scheme.

Here are some omens that have sprung up around us. Perhaps none of them, individually, could cause a break from the status quo, but collectively they bode ill for our civilization, our society, especially our freedom, your well-being and way of life:

The Paper Tiger Economy:

America was the wealthiest and most productive country in the world at the end of the last world war. That wealth has been systematically stolen, frittered away, and destroyed in the decades since, to be replaced with a mountain of astronomical debt that can never be paid off, even if every American is compelled to pay a flat 100% tax until they starve to death.

I believe this is by design. Coincidence theorists insist it was through a remarkably consistent series of consequences for mistakes, incompetence and short-sightedness by misguided libruls.

But however we got here, we are most definitely here. $38 TRILLION in debt that is admitted to, a(n astronomical) sum dwarfed by the unfunded liabilities and other commitments few people know or will talk about. Our worthless fiat currency has been propped up for a long time by misplaced confidence in our government and by an agreement between Washington and the OPEC countries to make our funny-money (the Federal Reserve Note) the world’s default transactional currency. So the can has been kicked down the road for generations and Congress spends us into ever-deeper debt each time it convenes, dumping billions of Petro-Dollars into essential endeavors like making our foreign enemies stronger and studying the addictive habits of over-50 autistic Vietnamese lesbian prostitutes with Leukemia.

If the rest of the world switches to some other currency like what the BRICS nations are developing, or the Saudis decide it’s no longer in their interest to keep using our funny-money as the default exchange currency, the whole Jenga economy comes down with a tremendous crash. The Great Depression will look like a minor downturn compared to what the globalist bankers have orchestrated over the last century.

Unprecedented Income Disparity:

While Congress has been bankrupting us, they haven’t neglected to make themselves rich in the process. Our representative government has been replaced with ruling class dynasties who only represent foreign interests and the robber barons who own them. Our “representatives” have become millionaires via bribes, money laundering, selling us out to our enemies, insider trading we would be prosecuted for, and, of course, by voting for their own pay-raises.

Others have financially prospered from Congress’ corruption, but it sure wasn’t We the People. The rich get richer while the poor get poorer through many mechanisms—some difficult for the layman to understand, like inflation; some which are easier to grasp, such as wealth redistribution via USAID and similar thievery.

More rules and red tape are implemented constantly to prevent working class or middle class entrepreneurs from ever being able to move up into the elite class. Thomas Edison and Henry Ford wouldn’t have a snowball’s chance of succeeding in Clown World.

The American economy was pushed onto this slippery slope in 1913 and it’s gotten worse in leaps and bounds. Still, there’s never been a wider gap between rich and poor in the USA than what we have right now. Americans are working harder for less buying power than ever before, and every year it gets worse.

Generations of Angry Young Men:

Alienated boys and young men have tolerated being treated as second-class citizens for a long time, because they believed they had something to look forward to if they worked hard and played by the rules. But now most of them have almost nothing left to lose. They’ll never be able to get a decent job in this system, a fulfilling career, retirement, savings, the “American Dream.” They’ll never be able to own their own home. They can’t even hope to find a loving, supportive wife in this toxic feminist dystopia, nor have children.

Except for some who were home-schooled, they have been taught to hate America and blame the free market, the constitutional republic, and Christianity for all the evils they have suffered, and for their bleak prospects. The Establishment used to seduce us into fighting the bankers’ wars to burn off our passion and energy, and eliminate the most dangerous of us. But now, to most young men, nuking Washington, DC is a far more attractive prospect than attacking Iran or Venezuela.

They’re Not All Even American:

Millions of US-born young men have been programmed to hate the republic the Founders left to us (and that we still supposedly have), and that’s bad enough. But we also have untold hordes of military-aged foreign savages amongst us, who hate America but will gladly let its gullible citizens be extorted to pay for their parasitic existence here. And evidently somebody has convinced them that America is the place where they can rape and plunder to their heart’s content. Senators and judges around the country are confirming that belief.

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This Ain’t the 1990s:

The enemy has a favorite tactic that has proven successful all through my lifetime, and probably since the beginning of time.

When besmirching Christianity, the enemy gets his useful idiots to judge it not by the example or teachings of Christ, but by the behavior of individuals and groups that contradict the teachings of Christ.

Similarly, the enemy has taught many young men of today to judge our constitutional republic not by what the United States Constitution authorizes or forbids, but by what has happened as a result of lawless, renegade public servants who ignore it, circumvent it, and otherwise violate it with impunity. It’s very much like a guy leaving his life vest on the beach, drowning, and then all the witnesses blaming the life vest for his death.

Reasoning with somebody completely invested in blaming the life vest has proven futile every time I’ve tried it. I rarely try it anymore. What swimmers actually need, they insist, is a lead-lined straight jacket, and you’re an Enlightenment Cuck if you suggest otherwise.

The cultural Marxist soy boys burn, loot, and murder to usher in an international socialist dictatorship. The Groypers, white nationalists and “race realists” (and their glowing svengalis) will gladly do the same to usher in a national socialist dictatorship.

After the murder of Vicky Weaver and the mass burning alive of men, women and children by the Clinton Administration, citizen militias began to form all over the country, and train to resist similar efforts by federal goons. Their cause wasn’t the overthrow of the American republic, but rather the restoration of it. That hot civil war never materialized, and the restoration never happened.

Today, organized violence may be imminent, but restoring freedom is evidently the last thing on the minds of the presumptive combatants.

Both factions want a strong man leader to rule over us with an iron fist. This is not a left-right conflict; but an internecine left-on-left conflict, much like WWII.

Most consider it a left-right cold civil war, or at best claim that the left-right paradigm is irrelevant, because they have accepted the false political spectrum taught by left-wing teachers, reinforced by left-wing professors, historians, authors and politicians, relentlessly regurgitated by left-wing influencers, celebrities, entertainers and pundits. The revisionism is so ubiquitous and prolific that even “conservatives” have adopted it into their worldview. Both the Nazis, and the Soviets before them, espoused that if you repeat a lie often enough, it is regarded as the truth. And here we are. So many people believe it, that must make it true.

I came across a tweet or meme (I forget which) recently that purported: “This is not a left vs. right issue, it’s an authoratarianism vs. liberty issue!” Rather comical, if you’re in on the joke, because that’s exactly what the left vs. right conflict is, respectively.

Notice how the leftists doggedly stick to the script with nonsense like the “No Kings Protests.” Their LARPing convinces the weak-minded that these goose-stepping Obammunists are against authoritarianism—disguising a left-on-left confrontation as a left-on-right one, with them on the side of individual rights. Many have struggled to understand what this “No Kings” psyop is really about. Well, that’s what it’s really about.

Aside from who owns (not controls) industry, and what ethnicities should be persecuted, “both sides” agree on pretty much everything. Which reveals this as just another Hegelian Dialectic. America becoming a region in a global dictatorship is the thesis. A national socialist dictatorship in America is the antithesis. What shape the synthesis will take will probably and unfortunately, become obvious in your lifetime.

The Spark for Civil War:

It didn’t kick off over Bundy Ranch. It didn’t kick off over the J6 Fedsurrection. Those would have at least started as distinct left-right conflicts. But that’s not the sort of conflict desired by whoever is herding us. They want a Hegelian WWII-style bloodbath of nazis against commies. At least that’s what it looks like from here, so far.

Disagreement about the compatibility of slavery with our founding ideals led to the violence of Bleeding Kansas and the secession of Southern states. But it wasn’t what started the fighting between the Union and Confederacy. It was the tinderbox, not the spark. What set it off was that both sides believed Fort Sumter rightfully belonged to them. The issue was pressed forcefully by both sides, and the shooting began.

There is no shortage of issues that have polarized the people inside the USA this time. There’s also no shortage of potential catalysts for the Cold Civil War turning hot.

One possibility is the standoff that led to the current “government shutdown.” Republicans, for now, are pretending to have grown a spine and have not caved to Democrat insistence that Americans be forced to continue supporting foreign parasites. Domestic enemies running the governments of Illinois, Oregon and California have struck a heroic pose against Federal LEOs attempting to arrest and deport some of the invaders. So the Civil War script has been flipped, in idiocratic fashion: the Democrats suddenly discovering the concept of states’ rights, while the Republicans huddle in the corner of Federal supremacy.

Swamp judges have predictably ruled that cutting off compulsory taxpayer handouts to foreigners must resume. I’m watching with interest to see if Team Trump cucks, or uses its power to crush the judicial oligarchy.

Meanwhile, domestic enemies are ordering local law enforcement to arrest Federal law enforcement that attempts to enforce the law. Both sides have military-grade gear and weapons.

In New York and Minnesota, Muslim communists, outspokenly loyal to foreign interests, are poised to take control of American cities. It almost makes the foreign members of Congress, openly loyal to foreign interests, seem like small potatoes by comparison. The white nationalists seethe, awaiting a go signal from their “god-emperor” to handle this situation decisively and with finality.

MASTERFUL MANIPULATION:

The enemy must be enjoying the mother of all dopamine hits because of how he has maneuvered so many to turn against their own beliefs.

Are you against mandatory national digital ID? But you want our elections secure, don’t you? Voter ID is being sold as the solution to election fraud (instead of enforcing laws already on the books).

So you’re against “the Patriot Act”, NDAA2012 and all the inherent violations of your individual rights? Well, don’t you want our borders locked down? The only way to do it is to put more limits on civil liberties (not enforce existing law)! Do you want secure borders or not, citizen?

You say you don’t want to give the Federal government, or any of its branches, or one person, even more power. But you want to end judicial tyranny and stop these rogue judges filing endless injunctions to impede the will of the people, don’t you? Well, the only way to stop them, citizen (enforcing existing law is not an option, of course), is to give the President more power, so he can remove them from the bench at will.

You like the separation of powers with checks and balances, do you? Well Congress and the courts are thoroughly corrupt and part of the problem. The only way to override their treason, citizen, is to place unrestricted power in the hands of the President (not by enforcing existing laws, naturally). What could possibly go wrong? Just concentrate all power in the hands of one person, because that person will reign forever and always rule according to what you think is right, of course. That’s guaranteed by the Great Pumpkin, or Nostredamus, or the Mayan Calendar or something, so don’t fret.

You don’t want a standing army violating posse comitatus and arresting civilians here in America. But gosh, citizen, how else can we stop these renegade politicians who force civilian police to stand down during riots and to interfere with ICE agents carrying out their duties? There’s just no other way to possibly clean up this mess (because enforcing existing law is not an option, per S.O.P.).

You remember that America was once the world’s mightiest industrial powerhouse before oppressive taxes, regulations, unions and America Last trade policies transferred our manufacturing to slave labor regimes overseas.

You want to see manufacturing come back to the homeland? Here ya go: we’re getting foreign-owned companies like Toyota and Nvidia to open a bunch of factories here. They might even hire a couple Americans to be unskilled labor on the assembly lines, while millions of Indians and other 3rd-World parasites are imported to do the skilled work and given hiring and advancement preference over more qualified Americans, while they are allowed to overstay their visas and avoid paying the same taxes that American citizens have to pay. Yay, winning!

The Historical Season:

We are in a 4th Turning—our fourth 4th Turning as Americans, to be specific.

Previous 4th Turnings (“Secular Crises”):

1. War for Independence through Constitutional Convention

2. Civil War

3. Great Depression through WWII

It looks like the pattern plays out this way:

• Foreign Threat (British)

• Internal Threat (Rebels)

• Foreign Threat (Axis)

• Internal Threat (Revcoms)

But then again, it looks like this pattern overlaps:

• Left vs. Right (statism vs. liberty)

• Left vs. Right (statism vs. liberty)

• Left vs. Left (national socialists vs. international socialists)

• Left vs. Left (national socialists vs. international socialists)

So according to my calculations, we are about to see an internal left-on-left showdown. And no matter who wins, either the state gains more power or the people lose more liberty—or both. That has happened every 4th Turning so far.

But wait, you say: in the first one (as Americans), we gained liberty as a result of independence from Britain. Correct—but that was the first phase. In the next phase (the Constitutional Convention), the Federalists prevailed over the Anti-Federalists, resulting in a more powerful, centralized (Federal) government, while the states and individual lost some sovereignty.

Small potatoes, you say? I concede the point, considering what we have lost since then. But the pattern is consistent, no matter how minimal the trend in that initial 4th Turning was.

Also every time so far, we have wound up fighting a war. Not some light, quick historical footnote like Urgent Fury or the Barbary Campaign. Total War. War to the knife. Collateral damage is shrugged off. Brutality carries the day. Whatever the most horrifying weapon is, we use it, and we don’t stop fighting until the enemy surrenders.

Strauss & Howe (who developed generational theory) don’t necessarily believe we will have a war during this Secular Crisis, despite the pattern so far. And there is a strong anti-war sentiment among the nationalist faction this time.

But I look at all the times we’ve sent our fighting men into harm’s way in between 4th Turnings and realize our public servants will wage war for the dumbest of non-reasons which have nothing to do with American interests, so it’s hard to imagine them showing restraint when the stakes are high. Also, the people in our country are more polarized than they’ve ever been since Fort Sumter, and I don’t see anything short of a blood soaked catastrophe that could get us to the other side of this impasse.

Maybe Trump won’t have the guts to act decisively, and the other side won’t force his hand. That’s even worse than if he does pull the trigger, and will probably lead to a longer, more savage and widespread slaughter.

And what if the pattern breaks? Our constitutional republic has survived every previous Crisis, though with more centralized control and/or less individual freedom each time. But it might not come through on the other side this time. What does come through might be unexceptional and unrecognizable to Americans. In fact, without the Christian foundation we had in the previous three Crises, what is there to secure our blessings and hold us together going forward? The majority of our countrymen have turned their back on God. He was never obligated to continue blessing us—He did it because He is loving and generous. We may have exhausted the grace he allowed us to abuse up until now.

I talk about America becoming unrecognizable in the future, but from our Creator’s perspective (the only one that matters, ultimately), we probably already are.

It’s not that I want any of this to come true. I’m not like some influencers I could name who gleefully anticipate the deathblow to what remains of my country. There’s nothing I can do to stop whatever is coming. If I had that kind of power, we never would have sunk to this point. And I would love to be wrong about all the negative probabilities I’ve mentioned.

All I can do is warn others.

There’s a bazillion other folks online who can advise you how to physically prepare for bad times. I used to be one of those guys. But the absolute most important preparation you can make is to get your heart and your life aligned to the will of God. Put your trust in Him; surrender your will to Him. If you know Jesus is Lord, then start living like it. Synchronize your attitude, behavior, and lifestyle with what you know to be true. It’s not too late, but it’s definitely not too early, either.

He is returning, and it will not be as the suffering servant, the Prince of Peace, or the Lamb of God this time. It will be as the King of Kings, the Lord of Hosts, and the Lion of Judah. I don’t know when He’s coming back for His Church, or when He’s coming back to reclaim the Earth. I suspect it’s not far off. But I also don’t believe it will be while America, as we know it, still exists.

In the Mean Time…

However long we have, we have to keep living.

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