IS GEN Z KICKING OFF THE FOURTH TURNING?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 12 November 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Is the high voter turnout among the young a sign of cyclical generational processes that may explain both the decadence of the Republicans and the hope of the young to recreate society in the wake of crises brought on by ruinous Republican policies?
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| 0:47.6 | To kick off my op-ed today at HartmanReport.com is titled, |
| 0:51.6 | had zoomers ushered in the fourth turning. |
| 0:55.0 | This idea that each generation is 17 to 20 years long. |
| 1:00.0 | Thomas Jefferson believed it was 19 years. |
| 1:02.5 | He wrote about this in 17, I forget the year, 1789. |
| 1:07.2 | That's what I thought September 6, 1789. |
| 1:09.4 | He was writing to James Madison. |
| 1:11.8 | He was in France at the time. |
| 1:12.9 | He was writing from mortality tables published by this French scientist. |
| 1:16.7 | In New Zealand before, |
| 1:18.6 | Jefferson was hypothesizing that every 19 years a new generation takes over |
| 1:24.8 | and that a new generation should take over. |
| 1:30.0 | He wrote this to James Madison, the father of the constitution. |
| 1:32.8 | He says it may be proved that no society can make perpetual constitution or even a perpetual law. |
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