Recapitulating how anger is the primary impetus behind the Fourth Turning. Because that's the kind of week it has been.

The downside of trying to do this quickly is that sometimes you don't have time to figure why your laptop is running the fan on full, making your podcast sound fuzzy in a way that can't be avoided because It's Coming From Inside The Computer. Hope to get it fixed by the next episode, thought.

Is time passing by differently than it has in other periods of history .... which is to say, about the same as in other periods like this one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Chicago_disaster

(My original goal with these quick Countdown mini-casts was maybe 2 minutes per - pretty sure this turned out to be the first one that was less than 3 minutes. Best laid plans...)

Maybe it makes sense to lock up the losers in our election battles, or at least to lock them up more than we do. This one is more partisan than I like to be, but only because the Republicans have more obvious and memorable scandals of government abuse. 

This article by Nicholas Grossman had some influence here, primarily because it's an excellent summary of what's been happening in the judicial branch:

https://arcdigital.media/against-the-judicial-wars-26baf22f3994

Everyone sees what they want in the nomination and confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett, so here's a Fourth Turning POV on it.

Incidental find on how changing the court is practically a tradition during 4th Turnings. (Note the year...)

https://www.scotusblog.com/2013/07/the-first-court-packing-plan/

The days remaining until the 2020 Presidential Election are in single digits now, but it's been a long time since it started, and it may be worth considering shortening it up a bit.

Bernie Sanders started his presidential campaign on February 19; Elizabeth Warren on February 9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries]

One of my ongoing projects has to do with looking day-by-day at EVERYTHING happening during the months between V-E and V-J day. One of the events was the election in the UK, but there was also Trinity, the departure of the USS Indianapolis with the Hiroshima bomb, the sinking of the USS Indianapolis after it was delivered, the Potsdam conference...and that's just July.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_United_Kingdom_general_election

When ordinary everyday events start becoming indications of how out-of-balance our fundamental governmental structures have become.

The 1790 census:

https://www.census.gov/history/www/through_the_decades/fast_facts/1790_fast_facts.html

The 2010 census, although of course the population has grown since then.

https://www.census.gov/history/www/through_the_decades/fast_facts/2010_fast_facts.html

Yes, the video in this tweet is at least part of the reason the size of moose is on my mind

https://twitter.com/TeslaChillMode/status/1318394790531141633

Thoughts on a Friday night late in October, when Homecoming should be happening, but isn't.

Concerns about corruption depend on actual instances of corruption, which the Fourth Turning encourages by its nature. (Although people won't really be concerned about it until the First Turning starts - too much else going on.)

Credit Mobilier (1872) is one of the main inspirations for this idea of corruption found during First Turnings that started in the Fourth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crédit_Mobilier_scandal

As are the Valachi hearings (1963)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valachi_hearings

At some level, the McCarthy hearings, along with other investigations into Communist influences, can be seen as concerns about corruption as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army–McCarthy_hearings

Can't really talk about Corruption without mentioning the Bloodguard, for whom the Vow was everything, and anything that was not the Vow was Corruption. 

https://unbeliever.fandom.com/wiki/Bloodguard

Big Structural Change was always going to be part of the Fourth Turning. What will election squabbles have to say about what the next big changes might be?

On the 1929 Apportionment act, which has some practical justification, but is still a source of imbalance compared to the original goals for the federal government.

https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1901-1950/The-Permanent-Apportionment-Act-of-1929/

The "dogmas of the quiet past" line is from Lincoln's second address to Congress (i.e. the State of the Union) in December 1862.

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/second-annual-message-9

An example of plans to limit the pardon power and others. 

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/506894-pelosi-plans-legislation-to-limit-pardons-commutations-after-roger-stone-move

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/23/pelosi-corruption-reforms-trump-420355

Countdown is a series of short episodes on the state of the world as the 2020 Presidential Election approaches. This first one considers some similarities to the Glorious Revolution and the American Civil War, and their status as markers of major structural change.