A major crisis has to happen every 80 years

Major wars generally happen every 80 years.

It's not time that is relevant. It's the people.
Time doesn't click that way. People do.
Time does not exist. It is an illusion people created to bring structure to their existence.

Here's why wars have to happen every 80 years.

A generation is defined by a group of people born roughly within a twenty year period. It takes four generations to completely forget the problems of its 80 year old predecessors.

We raise our kids the way we wanted our parents to raise us. We fix the deficiencies of the past and thus create new ones unknowingly.

These deficiencies repeat themselves every four generations.  It's like the earth needs 365.25 turns before it completes one cycle around the sun.

We need four generations to return to our starting point as a civilization.

In Strauss-Howe's book "Fourth Turning", the authors demonstrate how every major crisis was started when a "Hero" generation comes of age.

The hero generation hasn't been seen since they fought the Nazis.
Heros have re-emerged in the millennial generation.

Why can Donald Trump win the US election?
He offered in the last election and nobody took him serious.

His message is as obnoxious as her hairdo. His arrogance hasn't subdued. He promises the exact same things as he did four years ago.

But this time, people are listening.
Some might think that everyone's tired of the same old political rhetoric.

Trump might be considered a breath of fresh air that way.

Four years ago, the hero generation wasn't ready to influence the rest of the population.
Now they are.  Some of them are 33 years old.

The Hero generation is biting at the bit to get into a fight. They don't want to talk about fixing the world like their "Nomad" parents did before them.

They are going to fix it.

North America is about to go through a major crisis. Nothing like it has never seen in 80 years.

The Heros are lining up.