Article #388
by Bill Nugent
Every 80 years or so, America is plunged into a transformational revolution.
The First American revolution, 1776-1783, was the separation from Britain.
The Second American revolution, the Civil War, 1861-1865, was the end of slavery and it’s enormous economic impacts.
The crisis of 1939-1945, World War II, was not an American revolution but was a global revolution against fascism in Europe and east Asia.
The Third American revolution, 2016-present, comes eighty years after World War II. This present day revolution is a conflict between secular liberal progressivism and traditional values. This third revolution has already started.
A Collision of Moral Crusades
In 1776 it was American independence versus a British government preserving its empire.
In 1861 it was the move to free the slaves versus southern independence and state’s rights.
In 1939 it was a global revolution pitting democratic government versus German, Italian and Japanese fascist nationalism.
In 2024 it’s traditional Christian values, traditional marriage and sanctity of the lives of the unborn versus full expression of abortion, socialism, homosexuality and transgenderism..
In each of the above revolutions both sides claimed to have the moral high ground. Both sides were willing to fight by any and all means. Even the Nazis claimed that their blatant aggression was a defensive war. One Nazi slogan was “Germans defend yourselves!”
The Fourth Turning and Cycles of War
The book The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe gives a very insightful take on American and European history going back 500 years and showing cycles of revolutionary crisis. The book describes four 20 year periods in each 80 year cycle, called “turnings.” Let’s look at most recent 80 year cycle in the United States.
The first 20 year turning of the cycle is called the “High” which is confidence and expansion. In the United States, this was the post WW II economic boom of the 1940s and 50s and the baby boom of 1946-64.
The second 20 year turning is called the “Awakening” which is a time of spiritual, intuitive idealism. In the US, this was the 1960s and 70s social transformation.
The third 20 year turning is called the “Unraveling” in which individualism transcends institutional life. In the US, this was the “Me generation” of selfism of the 1980s and 90s
The fourth 20-year period, called the “fourth turning” is “Crisis” in which the unraveling has reached its full extent and the nation has to reinvent itself and move forward through conflict and pass a revolutionary gate of History to start a new 80 year cycle. This is the 2000s and 2010s apex of social liberalism colliding with a traditionalist, populist backlash.
We Almost Lost in Earlier Revolutionary Times
We almost lost the Revolutionary War in 1776 when General Howe destroyed 90 percent of Washington’s army. If we lost, America would have been a vassal state of Britain for generations.
We almost lost the Civil War in July of 1863 when casualty figures from Gettysburg were published and draft riots almost destroyed the Union’s will to fight on. If we lost, America would have become two shrunken nations, one free, the other slave.
There was one day, August 23, 1941, in which the Allies almost lost World War II in Europe. I write about the crucial decision made that day in my Defending the Faith article #364 titled “The Day we almost lost World War II in Europe” available at www.bnugent.org. If Germany won the war, the world would now be under the heel of German hegemony and world Jewry would be extinct.
If we lose the current revolution on November 5, 2024 we’ll suffer four more years of a radical liberal regime from which America would likely never recover. A loss would result in open borders bringing in millions more Democrat socialist voters. Liberal judges would be appointed at all levels to turn America into a European style “social democracy” with abortion, sexual deviancy and socialism imposed on us and celebrated by anti-christian people.
If we lose this revolution, America would likely soon fall under the global government headed by the anti-christ of Revelation 13.
The Third American Revolution has Already Begun
Right now we are in the midst of a crisis in the United States. We have a left-wing president who was opened the border to bring in millions of new voters for his party.
This same president has revolutionized foreign policy to make Iran great again by refusing to enforce the sanctions against Iranian oil exports. Iran’s unrestricted oil sales have brought over 70 billion dollars into Iran. Iran has used these billions to fund terror all over the world.
Biden’s disastrous surrender in Afghanistan allowed the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban who opened up Afghanistan to the Chinese. This showed America as weak and emboldened Putin to invade Ukraine.
I’d say that the above certainly constitutes a revolution. And, sadly, we are just getting started.
Socialism or Populism
The third American revolution can go in either one of two ways. The first way the revolution could turn would be to go to the socialist liberal way of Biden/Harris which is totalitarianism, globalism and technocracy in which the government is ruled not by the people but by liberal technocrats who are unelected “expert” Washington swamp bureaucrats.
The other way that the revolution could turn would be that of populism. America has had several periods of time in which populism was dominant. Populism is to put American national interests first and make America great again. Populism often leads to isolationism which has its good and bad points. It’s government by the people and for the people. The centralized bureaucracies of Washington D.C. are reduced in power.
The revolution began with the 2016 election of Donald Trump as president of the United States in which he began the resistance to bureaucratic power in Washington DC. Trump had his greatest impact in appointing conservative constitutionalist judges.
The greatest impact of the judges was the overturning of Roe versus Wade which is the beginning of the removal of the culture of death from the top of the American government and from all American institutions.
But there was a counter-revolution. The counter-revolution began with the tampering of the 20/20 election by Biden/Harris. The evidence is overwhelming. Mike Lindell and many others have documented the evidence. The film “2000 Mules” definitely shows on film the the election tampering and stuffing of ballot boxes. The courts have refused to examine the evidence, ruling on technical grounds such as “standing.”
So I would say that the opening shots of the revolution have been fired with devastating impact on the US. This brings us to the 2024 election which has been called the most important election of our lifetime. That’s not an exaggeration.
The President Suspended Part of the Constitution
What do you do when an American president suspends part of the US constitution? Such a suspension of the Constitution would be considered a high crime which is an impeachable offense. Some would say it’s an act of dictatorship and tyranny. This is what we have seen for the last three and a half years in the United States of America.
The part of the Constitution that has been suspended is a very brief but crucial phrase in article 2 section 3 of the US constitution. Article 2 delineates the powers and duties of the president. The phrase in section 3 Biden suspended reads as follows: “he [the president] shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” That phrase really encapsulates the heart of what the American president is required to do. He is required to enforce all the laws, including immigration laws.
The president is the chief executive of the United States. He is constitutionally bound to execute the laws passed by congress and signed into law. He must assure the American people that the laws passed by Congress are carried out and enforced.
The president does not get to pick and choose what laws he will execute. The American people, “we the people” are over the government of the United states. We the people have elected representatives to the Congress and Senate to pass laws, including immigration laws, that the president is duty bound to enforce.
The Biden Revolution
The current president of the United States, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., has refused to enforce the immigration laws. He has opened the borders of the United States by executive order, completely circumventing Congress to bring in more than 10 million people so far. These people are from a wide range of nations but overwhelmingly are from poor countries and that have a history of socialism and collectivist government.
The apparent intent of bringing millions of people into the country is to use motor-voter and other easy means of voter registration to register them to vote. The hope of the Democrats is that they would vote for the Democratic party candidates. Elections in the US are presently determined by tiny margins. Millions of new liberal voters would ensure liberal Democratic party rule of the US for years to come.
This is dictatorship. Actually it’s more than dictatorship. It can be called a revolution. We are witnessing a revolution. We are witnessing an overthrow of our “we the people, by the people, for the people” government by an insurgent liberal cabal.
I could discuss the many measures of censorship that FBI, CIA and other three letter agencies have imposed against the American people who have dissenting opinions about the vaccines, immigration, ecological and Green New Deal issues. Space forbids me to do so.
How can America be saved? How can we win this revolution? Pray, pray pray!!! See Second Chronicles 7:14. Also be sure to vote and bring others with you to vote.
Steps to salvation:
Jesus said “Ye must be born again” (John 3:7).
Prayer to receive salvation:
“Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Romans 10:13).
To receive the salvation that Jesus purchased for us at the terrible cost of His suffering and death on our behalf I invite you to pray this simple prayer:
“Dear heavenly Father, I thank you for sending Jesus, the promised Messiah, to die for my sins. I admit that I am a sinner. I repent of my sins and I ask for your forgiveness on the basis of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I ask you to fill me with your Holy Spirit to empower me to serve you under the Lordship of Jesus Christ, Amen.”
If you prayed this prayer in the humble sincerity of your heart then you have received everlasting life, which includes power to live right in this life and entrance into heaven in the afterlife!