"COMMON SENSE" PART 2 Addressed To The Inhabitants Of 2017 America

Zero Hedge ^ | 1/23/2017 | Tyler Durden

[greeneyes]

In Part One of this article I explored Thomas Paine’s critical role in the creation of our nation. His Common Sense pamphlets inspired the common people to uncommon acts of courage and heroic feats of valor; leading to the great experiment we call the United States of America. Paine, Franklin and the other Founding Fathers produced a republic, if we could keep it....snip

If you are blind to the parallels with our current position in this Fourth Turning, you are either wallowing in willful ignorance or you are a functionary within the debased establishment. One of Paine’s main themes was society was a blessing while government was, at best, a necessary evil....snip

[greeneyes]

This was a good review of the situation leading up to our Independence, and discussion of parallels for today. We are at the beginning of a new resistance to tyranny.

[Falconspeed]

“The Crisis had reached its regeneracy with Paine’s Common Sense and Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence, two of the most important documents in America history.” True. Great essay. Both need to read 1x every year.

[greeneyes]

Amen.

[FreedomStar3028]

Fourth Turning; if the theory is correct means that the world is in store for a “Total War” by 2029 at maximum and at minimum early to mid 2020’s.

[greeneyes]

Well, we are already at war, in every area except full blown military. We have been under attack culturally, economically, cyber attacks etc. for decades.

[AZLiberty]

Just as the Loyalists supported the armed clampdown upon the liberty seeking revolutionaries by the redcoats, the deranged leftist useful idiots rioting in DC and in the liberal urban bastions around the country this past week are at war against normalcy, self-reliance, fiscal responsibility, the family values that built this nation, and the geographic will of 85% of the country.

"Establishment Loyalists" is a good name for Trump's enemies.

[greeneyes]

Yes it is. Deranged Establishment Loyalists works too.

[wheresmyusa]

Bkmk!

[AZLiberty]

Deranged Establishment Loyalists works too.

Abbreviated "ALT-DELs".

[ganeemead]

What would you think of a lion which was being attacked by poisonous snakes and, refusing to even pay attention to the snakes, was preparing for war with a bear which was basically friendly and in fact had recently converted to Christianity??

Dumb lion? Or could it be that an out of control military/industrial complex needed an adversary which could justify expenditures on massive aircraft carriers and things like the F35 fighter and the snakes couldn't do that.....

[Neoliberalnot]

I would think the military is not the military it once was. Providing for the common defense is one of the very few roles that the federal government must play. For the last 8 years we have had a Muslim leader that has undermined the warrior mentality needed. He has replaced warriors and leaders with SSADs (Same Sex Attraction Disordered freaks) and placed these queers in close contact with warriors, forcing acceptance at the expense of building a formidable, cohesive fighting machine.