The current patriotic mania apparently escalating among so many of the erstwhile disaffected US population of anti-leftist instinct and European descent - so far fits with my hard-timeline geopolitical prediction of an imminently upcoming fake pennant event being used to trigger massive US involvement in a Middle Eastern war.
If so, this has been a clever manipulation - because just a few months ago there would have been little enthusiasm for a "Patriotic" war (for "US interests") among the class of Americans who are most inclined to support the military.
But currently, these oh-so-recent cynics about state-led political projects, have become wildly enthusiastic supporters of the government; and pin great hopes upon the capacity of official power to turn-around the nation, and recreate the kind of conservative-materialist-utopia of prosperity and accomplishment that they associate with the 1950s, or 1980s.
The ex-cynics would, in this prevailing mood, surely support their adored Leader in whatever military venture he regarded as necessary.
Time will (and soon) tell whether or not the prediction turns-out correct.
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I want to say people could never be that stupid, but that would be a pretty rash claim after 2020 and all that.
@Wm - IMO people are *already* being that stupid.
William W put it well yesterday:
"I see this as a self-selecting process whereby an individual's true motivation and powers of discernment are put to the test. Don't be deceived by something that may appear not quite as bad as what it replaces into thinking that it is good. It is only there to divert you from the true good and accept a false substitute."
http://meetingthemasters.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-new-dawn-or-setting-sun.html
This is indeed a test, another Litmus Test, and it certainly looks at present as if most of those who had passed all or most of the Litmus Tests so far, are failing this one.
I only hope that when it becomes clear that they have been manipulated via their inner craving for this-worldly optimism; that many of these currently deluded people will be able to perceive the fact - acknowledge their errors, and repent.
The big challenge now is for Christians really and truly to put their ultimate hopes in Christ's kingdom that is Not of this world; and to disentangle their desire to be optimistic about future socio-political prospects for this mortal life, from the bedrock of faith which should reside beyond this mortal life.
Christians need to be able to accept the reality of pessimism here-and-now without despairing; by resting hope for real betterment of our condition in that resurrection which lies beyond this world.
The timeline you have pegged may not come through, but the prediction about war is virtually assured, and the people who were most abused by the System over the past two or three decades are now sleep-marching right into it, brimming with optimism and "hopium."
@Frank - The timeline is part of the prediction in my mind; and unless the really major - and USA manipulating - fake pennant event happens really soon (by April); I will consider myself to have been wrong.
I have come to suspect that there may also be a fake pennant event designed to get the UK/ Europeans to continue the anti Fire Nation war when the US abandons it - but this is more of a rational and secondary inference, and elaboration of the (felt-like) "inspiration". The original thing was supposed to be the CHOAM-orientated event.
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