As a solid and nearly universal generalization: "People" grossly underestimate how bad things are.
We see this almost everywhere, including among those who regard themselves as radical, uncompromising, anti-Establishment, Christian-motivated - or whatever.
Think of the past US elections, and the way that so many people really seemed to believe that the situation in the USA was such that DT might make (or would make, or indeed already has made!) a significant difference for the better!
I can only shake my head in amazement. Do they really believe that the nature of the deepening and widening problems could possibly be reversed by DT?
Do they honestly suppose that this was, or is, the genuine intention?
The expressed level of enthusiasm and indeed hope (!) engendered among some Christians by Trump's early announcements was frankly embarrassing, when it was not merely ridiculous. And it is (to say the least) dismaying to realize that the observable fact of regime-continuity, and the failure of any positive overall US or world change to manifest, and the continuation of malignity in core strategies of the US-led West; are so easily and eagerly explained-away.
Because - with things as bad as they are and worsening long-term; unless the trends were not just slowed or stopped but reversed - decisively and unambiguously reversed (and not in words but in observable overall results) - then any potential variation of "politics as usual" is utterly futile.
So why discuss it? - discuss it frequently and endlessly, and with all appearances of regarding oneself as saying something fundamental?
Or the new Pope. It's all "probably some improvement", "wait and see", "something to be said on both sides"; or "give the bloke a chance", "benefit of the doubt" kind of stuff.
As if a (?) slightly-better Pope than Francis, would have the slightest benefit in a Roman Catholic Church that is collapsing like an avalanche, and putrescent with pervasive corruption and incremental apostasy at every level!
If the new Pope does Not have what it takes, and that is 100% for sure; then why be so diffident and nuanced about stating the fact!
Clutching at fake straws, wherever you look.
It really ought to be blazingly obvious that things are very bad indeed and have been continually getting worse for a long time, and with no hint of an upturn.
This insight isn't exactly rocket surgery.
When someone doesn't start with that level of recognition, then their discourse is revealed as merely compulsive gossip - whatever their pretentions of depth and seriousness.
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