Two Trains in the Night

 

Maybe more accurate with a donkey

My predictions for 2024 have been intentionally optimistic. Now 2024 has actually begun with a major earthquake, in Japan. Not a good sign.

It is hard to see how the 2024 US election turns out well. The Democrats have demonstrated that they will do anything to prevent Trump from being president—Tucker Carlson expects them to resort if necessary to assassination.

That would be a trauma greater than the Kennedy assassination.

If Trump does not become president as a result of the election, his supporters will have every reason to assume—indeed, they will know—the system was rigged against them. What will they do?

When democracy is denied, the option left is violence.

Conversely, the Democrats are determined that Trump must not become president. If he becomes president as a result of the election, what will they do? Lose all their determination and go home?

It looks like two trains coming at top speed down the same track, towards each other. It looks like revolution or civil war.

Yet history suggests that God has a special relationship with the US. I recall a friend on Facebook putting out a map showing that “most peaceful countries” correspond closely with “least religious countries.” He thought this discredited religion as a cause of violence. What it showed was that people turn to God when in need, and ignore him otherwise. Countries, as they become peaceful and prosperous, tend to turn away from religion. As do people.

The US has largely bucked that trend. As Europe or Japan have moved to apostasy, levels of religiosity in the US have remained relatively high. In the current crisis in the Catholic Church, Francis finds his traditionalist enemies in America, Eastern Europe, and Africa. With their intellectual centre in America.

Despite promulgating the postmodern madness, the US is not where it began. Traced back, it was a European import in the early and mid-20th century. The heart of America, as I think Cohen saw, remains strong. “he brave, the bold, the battered heart of Chevrolet.”

If civil war now seems inevitable, God has plunged the US into civil war before for a necessary cause. If the left is foolhardy or desperate enough to push it to this point, I believe at least the forces of democracy will win.

And perhaps be a beacon to the rest of the world, as America became in 1776.