Common Sense - 2017

The Burning Platform ^ | 1/16/2017 | Jim Quinn

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Paine’s contribution to American independence 241 years ago during the first American Fourth Turning cannot be overstated. His clarion call for colonial unity against a tyrannical British monarch played a providential role in convincing farmers, shopkeepers, and tradesmen reconciliation with a hereditary monarchy was impossible, and armed separation was the only common sense option. The same common sense Paine used to argue against a tyrannical, oppressive hereditary monarchy applies today when judging our corrupt, authoritarian, co-opted government. His themes of society as a blessing, government as evil, and revolution as inevitable are as applicable today as they were 241 years ago. As we approach Trump’s inauguration it has become clear the ruling elite feel threatened and are using their control of the media, intelligence services, military, and financial system to try and undermine his presidency before it begins.

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This is the author's perspective - not necessarily mine. The American Revolution represented a fourth turning (Strauss & Howe - The Fourth Turning). Hoover and the Great depression was another fourth turning. We are in a fourth turning that began with the global financial crisis in 2008. Trump will be blamed for the coming economic collapse, much as Hoover was in the great depression.