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.
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:
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.
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On a side note: my maternal grandfather was named William Wallace Ferguson :-)
He did well did old Fergie, ran a crop insurance company during the '30s and did fine, although I don't know how.
He always said that Scot could out bargain a Jew any day of the week.
His secretary remained single her entire life and worked him for decades. It really was a "Father Knows Best" kinda deal . . .
Dear old Dorothy would have quietly smiled at the typo and said something that had "Dear . . . " in it :-)
Fine, if the idiots at the top want to make it illegal for us to say what should happen to them ... that will make the denouement even more shocking for them
Vive la revolution
Dead.Nutz.On
They use simple psychology, literally using teams of psychologists, to develop Pavlovian mind control strategies to condition people to bend them to their will by keeping the overwhelming majority in a simple childlike state of confusion and wonderment, that is why most politicians always talk in endless riddles,never transparently, so that no one can understand, or predict what they are about to do, making the public feel that they themselves are somehow just not bright enough to really comprehend the apparently 'necessary' complexities of government policy making, or really have any justifiable place in contributing towards policy making in any meaningful way, the electorate are effectively told they are too stupid to understand, and that only government 'experts' can contribute to forming government policy decisions.
The present petition system is largely a useless fraud, and the voting system, Diebold system and all, with its equivalent in some other nations, is a total sham run in front of people who, in the sad majority of cases, seem to just want to be led like that, by ruthless genocidally murderous dictators who also attack the unsuspecting and dozy peoples even within the nations that those elites directly rule over.
As long as people are anaesthetised by the simple present day comfort of food on their plates every day, with the implicit threat of not being able to hold more savings in most cases than would be sufficient to enable them to survive for only one week, as is the case for most in the USA, they remain just so 'alive' in their bread and circuses false material culture, whilst remaining trapped within the prison farming system, unable to formulate any truly practical ideas in a manner that is or can be coordinated with others in their 'society', thus they remain unable to remedy the situation, despite the great number of individuals with excellent ideas and the will to implement them, who form only a very tiny percentage in society, with the rest simply not being interested in any practical way.
The masses have a job, but they are helplessly strapped into their criminally exploitive mortgage 'agreements', and they really cannot move on anything, nor do they have any immediate direct incentive or ability to do so, they are 'alive' and not starving, reasonably 'content' they think according to the values inflicted on them by the punitive system, held within a very narrow margin of existence. They have to stay within the system, or lose the ability to pay their mortgage, and even keep their families sometimes, and that is what holds many of them down, and that situation is very deliberately maintained to keep them just like that.
Society is now so dysfunctional as peoples are no longer in touch with each other, due to the increasingly forced thrusting together of ever-increasing numbers of disparate religions, languages, cultures, nationalities, economic groups, artificially created 'political persuasions' that result in misgiven loyalties to the various wings of the actually single chosenite bankster group, and the Coudenhove Kalergi program, etc., these factors being intended to produce exactly that effect, and the government can always rely on more votes from the mass waves of English-illiterate or semi-literate illegal immigrants who are granted rights each year, whose votes can very easily be swung in any way the government desires, forming a very convenient voting block that is always on hand.
The elite seek to confuse 'God' (the fake God that they create) and Government, conflating them as one in the minds of the sheeple, for example, Queen Elizabeth II in the UK is also the Governor General of the Protestant Church of England.
Generations of sheeple are thus raised and maintained, and they pass the disease of ignorance and acquiescence onto future generations, literally in a kind of mind-numbing 'tradition'.
Having accepted that the criminals / SPECTRE are what they are, it should not be a surprise to learn that they are, at best, fake Christians and have a preference for darker arts
They need public acceptance of their rituals to retain their power ... the Pope dresses up as a full blown wizard and we willing accept their rituals