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Arrgg, the chronic and perpetual negativity of conservatives (and some Christians) needs to just go away. Stop it, just stop it. I have had quite enough of the favorite phrase of the day, “it’s going to get a whole lot worse!”
Wrong mindset, wrong attitude, and a big part of the reason why more people won’t or can’t perceive conservatives as potential leaders. Follow me, it’s going to get a whole lot worse is not a winning concept.
Also, it’s vengeful, punitive. Some people actually, want it to get a whole lot worse. They want to be able to say, “I told you so.” They want to affirm and validate their dire predictions. They want people to go, oh yeah this is awful, I was wrong to support democrats, liberals, the left. Will you save me, oh wise and powerful ones?
Never. Going. To. Happen. Trust me on this.
“It’s going to get a whole lot worse” is a never ending mantra on social media, the news, and in person. People actually come up to me and go, oh yeah this thing happened, AND brace yourself, because it’s going to get a whole lot worse.
I don’t wish to be a debbie downer myself, but I’ve just spent several decades living in the 9th circuit of hell, among many people forced to live in what amounts to 3rd world poverty, complete with the horrors of an addiction epidemic, 3 years of pandemic tyranny, and a government that looks like it walked right off the set of the Hunger Games.
When people say, “it’s going to get a whole lot worse” I don’t go, “tell me more oh wise and prophetic one,” instead I just fight against the cackling sarcasm and hysteria that threatens to bubble up inside of me. Not quite sure what Easy Street you’ve been hanging out on, but I already live on the corner of, “Hell-in-a-hand-basket and Worse.”
Not long ago I did fabulous cross between Lady MacBeth and an old testament prophet and preached off my front porch at the top of my lungs in a long white night gown to some people trying to push a car down the road. Since it wouldn’t start they decided to just try to set it on fire. I didn’t even think to call the cops on account of the fact that they are trained to just lecture me about the need to have more compassion towards the, “mentally ill.”
A bit comical how I never seem to be one of the “needs to be protected” members of the mentally ill. Like, I think the Fentanyl Forrest down the road should try to respect my mental health, for a change.
“It’s going to get a whole lot worse” is so not helpful. I’m already about 15 years into “worse,” so I’m not overly intimidated by the idea anymore. Also, my fear mongering button broke about two weeks into the pandemic. I see no real reason to update it.
Seriously people, you need to do the simplest thing, just get up and go, this is the day the Lord hath made. Rejoice and be glad. Then you thank Him for breath. I like to take note of breathing because it’s something I don’t even think about. I don’t trust much of anything, but apparently I do trust the Lord to put the next breath in my body. In fact, I trust Him so well to handle it, that it’s not even on my radar. Generally I am trying to second guess, over think, and micro manage everything, but I never question whether or not God will supply the next breath. And if for some reason He decides to stop putting the next breath in my body, it’s all good, I got reservations. My eventual bug out shelter is fully equipped and I’ve been storing treasures up there.
No need to rush things, just saying, I’ve spent a few decades prepping for the afterlife, so it’s all good.
And needless to say, “it’s going to get a whole lot worse,” is so not the gospel.
See, there's this thing called biology... 
He IB – “conservatives”? Is that who is saying this? And is the only reason, so they can say, “see i was right”? Mmmm that is a bit of a jump. Also, how many times does Jesus say” Woe to you, Pharisees, I think 7 times in Matthew 23 – I think the bible doesn’t use this term “its going to get a lot worse”… instead, they say “woe to you” and “fear not”.
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Yep, it’s definitely conservatives. In fact, rather comically, I just encountered one on the street corner irl, holding up a sign that says that very thing. So we now have a full quorum going on.
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When people say it is going to get a whole lot worse, they may be right, they are focusing on the problem, not a solution (see https://citizentom.com/2011/11/19/are-you-focusing-on-the-problem-or-the-solution/). That is why that observation is not especially helpful. When we consider our options, we need to engage in critical thinking. We need to consider the fact that most of the proposed solutions won’t work, and some of proposed solutions will make the problem worse. Therefore, we need to evaluate the solutions carefully. Doomsaying is not a substitute for critical thinking.
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That’s a good point, Tom. “Doomsaying is not a substitute for critical thinking.” It’s also not a solution, it’s not problem solving.
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Since I am confident that everything is in God’s hands, I prefer to say things might get “harder,” or “more unpleasant.” This is not necessarily a bad thing. Pain is a wake-up call, and a lot of people are being awakened (not woke!) who have been oblivious up until now. End times prophecy says it will get more intense toward the end, but believers aren’t left to face tribulation alone. With the right (divine?) perspective, we can see these times as an ever-growing mission field and let the Spirit lead us into the most powerful, most exciting ministry if our lives.
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Hmn … Would not Polyanna today be treated for mental health issues? And isn’t entropy a law? And even the good guys die eventually. Our human behavior has damned our economy, again. But we can hope that our descendants will do better, again … And I too prefer to concentrate upon the full, not the empty, half of the glass!
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Lol! As the saying goes, it’s not about whether or not the glass is empty or full, it’s knowing it’s always refillable.
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I’m not sure whether it’s a “mindset” or a default for “failure prediction”, but we can have Faith that God is both watching and involved in the outcome and still embrace reality and see that plainly… things are getting worse. As well, we can also use our God given eyes, ears and brains to tell us that conditions are in fact getting worse and will continue to at least in the foreseeable future. It doesn’t make me less Faith filled to do so
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Well, “worse” is a subjective matter of opinion. Consider the Apostles, often being beaten, thrown in jail, outright executed. It’s Paul who says “rejoice, and again I say rejoice,” while he is in jail. Given those conditions, how exactly are things going to get worse? Also, as far as history goes, we of the modern world are pretty well blessed.
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Worse is not always subjective or opinion based. Its also an objective measure of conditiom. I would say 5 dollar gas is worse than 2 or 1 dollar gas. Stage 4 cancer is worse than no cancer at all. And banks failing and the gvt taking them over to minimize the damage is worse than if they never failed at all. Stop painting Worse as just a subjective opinion based on feeling. It’s not honest.
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Please don’t take this too seriously, but the modern world can take a long walk off a short pier. He wants us to “finish the race” so I will, however I long ago had my patience exhausted.
This post is the closest to a rant I can remember coming from you; after all, in response to a question I’d posed, you have chosen to stay in “the 9th circuit of hell”. (I remember smiling at the first time I read that)
Given the idiocy of folks there, I would have left so quickly, that anyone close at hand would have suffered a wind burn. As for Scripture, Christ said to expect trials, and Matthew 24 doesn’t put on rose colored glasses, or say it’s going to be okay.
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I have mixed feelings here. It certainly CAN get worse and people need to be shaken out of their drug-stupors and apathy if they want to stop it from happening. On the other hand, our problems are not irreversible. If we look at American history, we really haven’t had an easy time of it holding our Republic together. Let’s just consider that we’ve had nine major wars. including two civil wars and not counting all of the foreign interventions, or the times the Army has had to put down domestic uprisings or fight the Indians.
8 of our 46 presidents have died in office; there have been about as many attempted coups (though historians don’t call them that); race-riots have been going on since the Slave Revolt of 1831; we’ve had around eight major economic depressions; and several different groups of organized crackpots at various times trying to overthrow society. We have a lot of violent cities today, but the Frontier, the Old West, the crime-waves that hit during the 1880s, 1920s and 30s, and 1960s and 70s were awfully violent too. Corruption between Government and Big Business was about as bad as today between the Civil War and the New Deal. Revelations about the Nazi Propaganda machine after WW2, was about the only time our mass-media was shocked into a measure of actual self-discipline and professionalism (for about 30-40 years; now we’ve gone back to the sensationalism and Yellow Journalism that we had before).
So, it’s not like political instability, economic inequality, social division, violence, corruption, and foreign and domestic threats are anything new. The Controlled Opposition likes to imply that “things have never been this bad” when they actually have. The main problems that are new ones are:
1) the decline of traditional faith and the rise of Scientism and dangerous cults
2) the terrible conditions of our schools and lack of parenting
3) related to #2, the declining birthrates, rise of infertility and sexual dysphoria and hysteria
4) breakdowns of sense of community: a ‘look out for #1’ mentality
5) the proliferation of dangerous narcotics
6) related to #4, the growing trend of looking for a strongman to solve our problems instead of working together to do something.
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Well, I suppose that’s somewhat optimistic! The thing is, I think I could have written your same list back in 1982. Are those really “new” problems or have they been with us for some time now?
Perhaps in some ways it’s really good that things have gotten so blatant and mainstream because now everyone has to face it and confront it?
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1982: well—yes #4 was a growing problem; and the public schools sucked though the prep schools and colleges were still pretty good. As for the others, the number of people going to church was 30 percentage points higher then and Christian Conservatives were a potent political force. Families were declining, but still reproducing at replacement levels despite legal abortion and no-fault divorce. We didn’t have ‘pride parades’ or drag-queen story hours, or homo equality shoved down our throats under duress. Gender dysphoria was treated with psychology and one couldn’t get a sex-change without a court order backed by medical recommendations. There was a drug problem too, but nowhere near the overdose rates of today and one couldn’t just go to the corner store and buy high-THC pot. Back then too, we still had plenty of the WW2 generation left who certainly feared potential dictators.
Definitely problems are out in the open now. The cracks we were seeing back then are wide fissures now—and they’re going to have to be dealt with. I’m just not sure that we have it in us to deal with it any more. Our generations are split between two warring factions who are only out for themselves and the rest of us who want to find solutions. The younger generations are historically the agents of change; but ours doesn’t have the numbers that they once had and don’t seem to have very much ability when it comes to dealing with and fixing problems.
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Yes, the one that is really big in my mind is that we no longer have the WW2 generation that feared dictators. There is little or no concern about communism either, in fact it’s seen as just misunderstood or exaggerated. I mentioned the “Hunger Games” because when the movie came out we took a bunch of teens to see it and they were cheering, they thought it was great. All us grown ups were on the verge of tears, triggered even, because this is totalitarianism, this is fascism. We were completely unable to explain it to the kids because they simply had no point of reference, it was just a fantasy, it wasn’t real and had never actually happened anywhere in the history world.
Immigrants can sometimes be really helpful in telling the truth of what life is like in some places and what makes this country great, things that many of us forget about or take for granted.
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I actually remember some of now totally-gone WW1 generation. Their attitudes towards dictatorships was open hatred. A lot of the older families grew up on stories of the British Monarchy here and the Southern Aristocracy during the Civil War; the newer group were children of immigrants who left to get away from kaisers and emperors and all those other thugs. The WW2 generation saw it in real-time too. We hear a lot too about Vietnam, but an awful lot of guys came back from there under no illusions about what the Communists were really like.
It’s been a real problem trying to connect with younger people on some of these issues. Things like Privacy Rights, for example. They don’t have a reference point even in America of why those are important. Many of them actually think that only reason for privacy is to hide wrong-doing. They’ve grown up with surveillance cameras and metal detectors everywhere; schools and businesses that completely disregard the 4th Amendment, been subject to illegal searches and lockdowns, and militarized police and brutal schools and social services ever since they were babies. It’s the same with all of these stupid gender issues: hardly anybody under 30 has ever seen a functional family or a healthy relationship that they can relate to. Studies have shown that they—especially young women—want those things but think that they’re unrealistic,
And to me the sickening thing is that Conservatives ignored warnings about these things literally for decades and now they want to clutch their bowties and pretend that they didn’t know; or that it was all suddenly brought on by the Chinese, or immigrants, or Biden, or whatever. Admittedly, I do sometimes say ‘I told you so’ but it’s usually followed by ‘now get off your butts and fix it while you still can.’
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I like this post. You Conservative evangelicals sure do like to whine, and it is rather tiresome. Remember, you have more luxuries and life security (food/water/electricity/communication) in your home today than any King just two-hundred years ago.
And just a neighbourly reminder: the things that are going bad in the US recently are all down to Conservatives (yes, Trump) gutting perfectly sound regulations. Train crashes. Bank Crashes. Plane crashes. All the effects of Trump’s policies. So maybe in the future you might consider voting for people who actually have you best interests at heart.
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Lol! Well, I suppose I should let you have your say, considering how many times during the pandemic I actually thanked the Lord that I do not live in Australia.
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You’re in Brazil, and propose that what’s happened in MY country is Trump’s fault? To be polite, you are legally BLIND.
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Trump rolled back Dodd Frank, which would have prevented SVB and Signature Bank’s getting into the mess they got themselves into.
Trump rolled back Obama’s train safety regulations after being lobbied by the very company that has crashed three times in the last three months due to not having to install new braking systems which would have prevented the crashes. There’s video of him bragging about it.
Trump rolled back aircraft certification rules which led directly to Boeing rushing the 737 Super Max onto the market. Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenberg even bragged about it in 2017:
346 people killed.
So, if you don’t want to be embarrassed again for not knowing shit, I’d suggest you get your news from someone source other than Fox Talk Network.
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When I’m wrong, I’m wrong, Mr Zande. You are correct. Just note that many current issues go back in history to several administrations not just Trump. Both sides are culpable for monetary and other ills.
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Hallelujah
Considering the suffering and sacrifice of Christ
I am joyous that, He’s got this!
I am at peace and am available to minister to those that need the help, that I am faithfully equipped to offer.
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Yayyy! Thank you, Jeff. Sounds like a man who knows his purpose and his mission. That’s exactly what the world needs today. 😊
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Lol, I heard one of my favorite radio hosts use that term just today! Things can get worse and maybe like Nightwind says, it will finally wake people up out of their stupor. Or maybe not, people never cease to disappoint me. I choose to remain optimistic though that even out of ruins (or maybe especially?), great things can happen like more people turning to Jesus and realizing the things in life that truly are important like family, friends and community.
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I’m not afraid of it “getting a whole lot worse”: But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Amen! 🙂
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“… I’ve spent a few decades prepping for the afterlife, so it’s all good.”
Enjoyed this post. The above quote reminded me of story related to Christ’s admonishment to “store up treasures in Heaven”.
Upon arriving, St’ Peter is said to have escorted the subject through the streets of gold past lavish mansions of good, but descending value, until eventually stopping at a small, quaint cabin. “This is my eternal dwelling”? quipped the subject. “Indeed”, replied St. Peter. “You must have been prepared for such a revelation. In truth, it is the very best we could do with what little you stored up”.
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LOL! Yes, but it will still be a small, quaint cabin in HEAVEN. Location, location, location!
Good joke MJ. 🙂
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The Bible tells us that things are going to get worse. After the rapture, when Jesus takes all believers out of the world, the Antichrist will come to power. The bulk of the book of Revelation describes what will happen then. The bad times will only end when Jesus Christ returns to set up his kingdom and rid the earth of evil.
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Well, if one believes in the rapture, then one wouldn’t be here anyway, right? So it’s not going to “get a whole lot worse” for any of us because we’d be caught up with Jesus.
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Reblogged this on clydeherrin.
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Me I have no fear of death. I live in Italy. Here there are so many seers andevery day they talk about the human end. I have no fear. If something will happen I’ll be here, ready. 😁
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On this one I disagree.
Yes, it IS going to get a lot worse. The point is not to scare the s**t out of people but to warn them so that they can take steps to avoid the bad outcome and make preparations to mitigate the impact if the bad outcome cannot be avoided.
The bearer of bad news is hated most of the time. That will never change. People prefer pretending that everything is fine when it’s not.
How did the biblical prophets do? Were they perceived as potential leaders? To say they wouldn’t be promising candidates in a popularity contest is an understatement. To be absolutely clear, I’m NOT a prophet.
I’m just a man, saying what I think will likely happen or what might happen if the current trajectory doesn’t change.
It’s up to the reader how he uses that information.
The problem with conservative leaders is not the “constant negativity” and it’s also not that they don’t provide solutions. Quite the contrary, they provide many wonderful solutions but then they do … NOTHING. THAT is the problem of conservative leadership.
It’s nice to bring people from the Left to your side but it’s not a necessary condition for affecting change or for taking over power. For now, it would be enough to activate and motivate the conservative base. Because of the lack of action many conservatives don’t even bother to vote.
There’s nothing vengeful or punitive about warning that it’s gonna get worse.
Some people may want things to get worse but I would say that this is a minority.
If the future one predicts or that one warns about is a dystopian hell on earth does one really want that dystopian hell to become reality?
Admittedly, being proven right gives a kind of satisfaction but one has to be perverse to want to live in a dystopian hell just to get that kind of satisfaction.
Do conservatives who are warning about skyhigh inflation and economical collapse really want these things to happen?
I don’t think so. They would have to suffer the same consequences their leftist neighbours would have to suffer.
However, once these things happen, the desire to say “You idiot. I told you so.” is understandable.
The reason why their leftist neighbours won’t change is because the media and the Left immediately switches the messaging.
The leftist neighbours are then constantly bombarded with a message that they willingly absorb because it doesn’t require any painful change or any inconvenient thoughts.
The message, for example, simply blames everything for the skyhigh inflation except the real cause, the excessive printing of money. As sure as the sun rises they will blame conservatives, Trump or the evil capitalists for that.
It isn’t enough to say: “If we continue doing X, Y will happen.” You have to also provide the excuse that will be used once Y happens in advance.
Only if one does that, one has a remote chance of changing minds.
There’s no gurantee that this would work but in my view the chances are higher.
One has to anticipate the excuses that will be used and demolish and discredit them in advance in a “messaging preemptive strike.”
Granted, media and big tech are dominated by the Left but they have also much more effective messaging but while media and big tech dominance cannot be changed quickly, messaging capabilities and messaging effectiveness can.
You should thank the people who are warning others for their altruism because warning people can come at a real cost.
If you would know that a big flood is coming would you raise the alarm and share your knowledge or would you keep silent?
From a purely egotistical point of view the latter is much more advantageous.
You could calmly prepare without any pressure by buying a boat at a reasonable price and you would have an advantage over all your neighbours.
You could immediately warn your neighbours and trigger a run on boats with the result that boats would become exceedingly expensive or if you’ re really unlucky there were no more boats left for you.
If you knew that the currency is about to collapse which course of action is more altruistic? To keep silent and buy all the gold you need at a low price or to spread the word and pay much more for the gold?
The people in power, on the other hand, are mostly sociopaths who don’t give a crap about their neighbours and they wouldn’t dream of giving up the slightest bit of advantage.
These people in politcs, media, business and the “expert” class will almost always pretend that everything is fine while they are saving their wealth and money, while they are sucking every ounce of wealth out of the system till the very end when the system collapses. That’s exactly what happened for example at the Silicon Valley Bank and that’s what happened in many other collapses of any kind of organization/system.
You’re the last one who is being told that there is a BIG problem and by the time the media tells you it’s too late. Everything is f***ed up beyound repair.
So, you should really thank those annoying people who at least tell you that the s**t is about to hit the fan.
There is a fine line between warning people and spreading fear and panic which should not be crossed because fear and panic can be exploited by the ones lusting for power and control.
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What u describe is like train tracks running parallel that are in opposition to each other.
On the one hand, ‘evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse,’ while at the same time ‘he that will love life, AND see good days…..’
So yep, you are right, won’t get worse for me. But common sense, every day experience, and scripture, show ‘that other track’ is heading in a bad direction.
But Newman: ‘what, me worry?’ lol
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