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Arthur_Frain

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2. Well if you read "The Fourth Turning"

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Sat Apr 4, 2026, 11:06 AM

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That’s exactly what it says is going to happen.

I thought it was odd in Neil’s revisit to the first book, he seemed to reach the conclusion that we’d reached the crisis and were headed down the other side. I thought “that’s odd, because I still recognize this shit.”

I tend to agree, I think the America 5 years from now will be something we just didn’t see coming. Or at least that’s what I hope because what I see coming is ugly as hell. Can we pull a rabbit out of our hat sometime soon?

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