The question is, who is behind this postmodern Spirit? That Satanic Spirit (now called Postmodernism) awoke in the French Revolution and in the Russian Revolution, and now it is raising it's ugly head here in the US.
There certainly seems to be an intelligence guiding it. Whether it is a living intelligence or an inanimate intelligence, I don't know. Is this Evil Spirit only an inanimate idea in the clouds, like a religion, or does it stem from an actual person or a committee?

The people follow an instinct to feed this Evil Spirit (for a feeling of job security, or to feel as one with Hollywood celebrities, or for a calculating greed to rise in the ranks of a hierarchy).
person or a committee.

Basically I agree. Those elitists have made the same error as Marxists - and some are Marxists: They assume that their wealth stands on its own, and have forgotten that it was on the backs of every worker for which they have contempt. Their wealth will not last a year - maybe two, after the means of production is so crippled that the economy collapses. History has proved that almost endlessly. They will run to the most safe haven they can find, and eventually be penniless and on the run. Remember them. Prosecute them fairly.

I was raised in poverty in the US, but was blessed to be in a country that doesn’t lock its citizens in poverty and rewards hard work and ingenuity. My brother and I both worked our way out of poverty and eventually were able to own our own homes and even purchased one for our mother.

Although we were part of that “horrendous poverty rate”, God blessed us in our poverty. We were happy and like most of the people we knew, we were happy and healthy in our poverty. Most of those we knew chose not to work their way out of poverty, because it was the life they knew and it wasn’t worth it to them to work their way out.

My mother pushed her children to seek higher education and to try to raise our standards of living. My brother and I accepted the challenge. We got scholarships and worked to put ourselves through college. We accepted the fact that we had to work a lot more than the rich kids, but we refused to see ourselves as victims (since that is a tool of the ignorant and arrogant liberals to keep the poor “in their place&rdquo. As an adult, I have worked for as little as $1 per hour and as much as 6digit salaries, but I always chose to work and not to just seek handouts. Many times I held down 2 or 3 jobs at a time and there was a period when my wife and I worked over 130 hours a week when we were restaurant owners. We learned to recognize opportunities and to plan for them so that we could jump on them when they arose. My wife is a naturalized citizen and our grandchildren have a good life. Some have lived in poverty for a period of time, but we have taught them to refuse to feel sorry and to reject this victim mentality being to forcefully pushed on them. Although all our successes are because of God’s blessings (health, strength, intelligence, strong work ethic, opportunities, etc...), He expects us to take so our part and be thankful for what He has given us.

I say all this to help you see that you are deceived in thinking America is moving in a positive direction toward some goal post that will make it somehow better. We are not victims and our poverty rates are not a sign of a need for a different kind of government. We have evil people in powerful positions of our government right now and they are doing a lot of damage, but we are still in the greatest country in the world. They may push us into a leftist Marxist mess where we end up in poverty again, but I’d rather live here and work our way out of our own mess than any of the other countries in which I’ve lived or visited or about which I’ve studied.

@Daveclark5 the comment about the goalpost was highly sarcastic. But anchored in reality. Because it does seem like someone is working har to make it happen.

@HistoryCorner Thanks for the clarification.
There are a lot of people (mostly Outside America, but also those from within who either want to be the slave-masters of a nation of ignorant drones or those who hate the idea of a nation founded upon Christian principles that cares for their neighbors enough to help them rise to self-sufficiency) who are trying hard to work toward that goal of a one-world government. This can never happen with a strong America, so it must first be destroyed and remade into a Marxist hell-hole.

There are many of us patriotic Americans though, that stand firmly against this dystopian future they are striving for. We are the “gun-toting hicks” that they fear. We believe in the rule of law and our law is based upon our constitution. Our founding fathers foresaw the eventuality of power corrupting those within our government to be seduced by other outside forces seeking to destroy us and they created safeguards within our constitution. Those corrupt powers within our government have been working overtime weaken and ultimately overcome our constitution, but the 2nd amendment was specifically created to allow a well-armed people to be capable of defending themselves and ultimately the nation against “all enemies, both foreign and domestic”. That’s also why the leftist Marxist elements seek to take this right away through LIES, subterfuge and deception of all types.
A free America is the last stronghold against the turf of those who seek power at all cost.

Those of us with this perspective seek to do nobody harm anywhere and that’s why we are slow to rise up and slow to be incited. The nonsense that was misnamed an insurrection was a ruse to seize power. We now have a puppet in the Whitehouse and still we have chosen not to resort to armed rebellion. However, we are not afraid to fight to the death to defend this FREE America. We are not a “sleeping giant”, we are very much awake and aware of what they are doing. We simply await the time when God makes it clear that He wants us to rise up and defend the helpless and destroy those who have harmed so many. Many of us are ready and willing to die to save those who are suffering at the hands of these power-hungry tyrants.

We are not Israel, but to see a model of what I believe, you can look at the history of how Israel has repeatedly rebelled against God’s plans for them for long enough until God punished the nation (using other nations) for a period until they repented and turned to Him for help. Then He crushed those nations and restored Israel.

China is certainly an external threat, but the video speaks of an internal threat. Did you see the video?

@Daveclark5. To some of us the only measure of status in the World is economic strength, and the question was First World status. US society is imploding and immigration “replacement” is only a fraction of the cause.