Like All the Rest

So, you’ve noticed the political turmoil in the US. The only thing certain is that it will get worse. In the wider Radix Fidem community, we tend to agree that God is not tipping His hand on the specifics. That’s because they don’t matter, in the sense that none of them points to any key issues of faith and morals. All of them together are simply the death knell of the American Empire.

We can see certain things clearly.

1. The tariffs: Whether or not they were good policy was never the point. Trump didn’t sell it to the public. He is not a good teacher; he should have appointed someone who is a good lecturer to go on national TV and explain how a temporary economic decline could eventually improve our lives. He should have used the power of Presidential privilege for public address. Never trust the news services to get your message across when they are hostile in the first place.
2. ICE thuggery: The majority has no complaint with trying to reverse the invasion of recent years, but the quick-n-dirty methods of ICE are simply unacceptable brutality, not to mention too little too late.
3. The Epstein Files cover-up: Trump promised to release them, then waffled. It appears he is implicated in some way.
4. Bombing Venezuelan boats: There is no valid reason for this, nor the aggression against the country.
5. Sucking up to Netanyahu: Brazen genocide does not sit well with most people.
6. Needlessly alienating his strongest supporters, people who have the public’s attention.

Hopefully folks can see Trump is not God’s chosen to save America, but to destroy it. He is handling these crises very poorly, which strengthens his opposition. Then again, the rising leftist response in some quarters does not signal an organized threat to him, but a threat to us little people. I’m not referring to how bad leftist policies can be, but the polarization of the public at large. At the same time the system is fracturing, we are ever more tightly bound to it.

This will not be your typical swing back and forth between two partisan poles. The national majority still prefer Trump, but his performance is collapsing. This is not a TV show where he controls all the conditions along with what is broadcast. There is no cutting room for this spectacle; it’s streaming live.

There are plenty of things Trump has unleashed that he cannot control. The forcible conversion from dollars to a central banking digital currency (CBDC) is now unavoidable, and it will be linked to some form of social credit score that Trump will not be allowed to control. The wealth gap will widen and harden between the haves and have-nots. A growing portion of the have-nots will be driven into crime, simply because it’s less painful than playing along with the system. For decades the US population was lulled to sleep by the generous provision of hedonistic comfort, but that’s going away.

You could probably see all of this using mere human reason. But the problem is that reason tends to leave you open to futile hopes that this can all be fixed. Intellect is tempted to isolate the individual problems, trying to address each one, without seeing the pattern. Moral conviction would lead you to realize that this is the end of the empire.

It will not be a clean end, as if poetic justice could be read in this disaster. It was born of a human rejection of God’s Word and it will end the same. The Devil and his allies are not interested in making sense to us. They have had a free hand in things. This empire was their enterprise from start to finish, and their preference is always mass deception that ends in human destruction. The only way to understand is from outside their system.

Aside from setting certain boundaries, God’s part in the American Empire has been to call His people out of it. Unless you depart and give your whole allegiance to Christ and His Invisible Kingdom, you will be drawn into the madness of the collapse. America doesn’t matter; it’s just a blip on the eternal outlook. No, this is not uniquely historic among human empires, much less does Christ have any little slice of it. That’s why there is no prophecy about this empire except that it’s just another human failure under the leadership of Satan.