The Pendulum of Politics

[JohnyMac]

I was trading messages last evening with some MAG members and thought to myself how far the bob from the pendulum had swung to the left in the past two years.

As I have written in the past, our political landscape is a pendulum. The bob moves left or right to the same amplitude as it swings through space depending on the force of gravity upon it.

Today, that bob is as far 'left' as it has ever been in our nation's history. I suspect through the next twenty-four months or so, the bob will swing to the right starting with this year's midterm elections. Then arrive at a similar craziness or amplitude, we are seeing today.

The question to all is, will we allow the bob to reach the same craziness or amplitude, on the 'right' as we are seeing on the 'left' today? Can our country survive if we allow the 'right' moving bob attain the same amplitude without a civil war?

Then another question comes to mind, will the movement of the bob to the 'right' be birthing pains of a new nation? 

While looking for an image of a pendulum to drive home my thoughts on the interwiz, I ran across a Glenn Beck "Chalk Board" lecture on the exact same thing from 2019. Here is the four-minute video,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvcyq91KtM0

And believe it or not another Beck "chalk Board" lecture on the same thing from 2014,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DOZUXNvY0M

Both videos illustrate far better than what I tried to put into words earlier.

After looking at the two Beck video's, I have concluded that we are just starting to experience labor pains. The labor pains will increase in strength over the next twenty-four months till we give birth to a new nation. A nation that will probably rewrite the Constitution, return to our Judeo-Christian roots, one that which is focused on our country's needs; Certainly, not the world's policeman anymore.

Yes, we keep coming back to the Strauss-Howe generational theory outlined in their book, The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy don't we?

 

 

[zanedclark]

Well said JM.

z

[pkveazey]

In the early 1960's when I was in High School, our Government teacher described politics as a swinging pendulum. The difference today is he described it as a slow swing and not a huge swing like we are seeing right now. I feel like I'm riding in a car and a Democrat is driving like a maniac and when he crashes we both will be killed.

[grizz]

In the early 1960's when I was in High School, our Government teacher described politics as a swinging pendulum. The difference today is he described it as a slow swing and not a huge swing like we are seeing right now. I feel like I'm riding in a car and a Democrat is driving like a maniac and when he crashes we both will be killed.

I see it as the left getting a stronghold on the pendulum and doing everything in their power to weld it in place. The left has recruited, mainstream media, social media, education from 1st year through college and they are not giving an inch

[JohnyMac]

I agree Grizz. "They" know that gravity is working against them and I suspect that the midterms becoming reality at his point is only a 50% chance.

Something brothers and sisters, feels off at the moment.