De, In my lifetime, up until Trump got elected, the party which didn't win the Presidency has always been a disgruntled...but always went along reasonably well with the arrangement. Heck, I remember when the two parties were "bipartisan" to some extent on nearly all legislation. Don't you remember that?
And I recall when you said that the FBI would step in and do the right thing once it became apparent Trump was being wrongly treated by "a few" out of control agents. So...that was as recent as 2017?
I don't think either of expected the federal government was completely corrupt/off-the-constitutional-rails in, say, 2015. I know I wasn't that far gone. I've always thought bureaucracies were bungling and maybe filled with a few too many sinecures, but I went along with the program figuring it was just inertia and bad habits.
Yes, I figured JFK was assassinated. And I had read enough of other exploits, and false flag attacks, that I figured there were SOME bad actors in the Federal machinery.
But I never figured until 2018-2019, when the whole of the "Russia, Russia, Russia" / impeachment scam was out in the open that the majority of the federal government -- probably including the Pentagon -- was in collusion against the Republic. And, even then, I didn't thought it was just "a majority" and not a totality.
For approximately all the years I've known of Armstrong (which, as I said, began, I believe, around 2012) he has been saying the biggest trend his cycles saw was loss of faith in government...beginning around 2015 through 2030 or so (with rise of China to #1 world power approx 2032/34 after a "likely" major war around 2027.
He said these things way before I heard of anyone else saying they were likely.
FWIW, with respect to gold/silver, he has always been rather hesitant to recommend them, because he said they would eventually hold their own but the stock market was the better place to be until after the Euro and Yen collapsed and the dollar was finally going to lose value (as part of the losing faith in government). He was saying, way back in 2012 that the Dow would go through 18,000 (it was about about 12,000 at the time, if I remember approximately right) which seemed unlikely to me! Indeed, he called for the Dow to eventually perhaps get to 50,000....which it still hasn't as of yet.
But he always warned that at the end stocks might be 50,000 because there was no better place to escape dollar collapse. He always said gold/silver had their place but the main thing to watch was confidence in the government/institutions, because that was the only thing really backing fiat.
Again, as I said, he is looking at cycles going up and going down and intersecting (as best I understand how his computer system works). The curves represent human and social beliefs/trends. From that he tries to figure out what to recommend that people do...how he thinks the trend changes will manifest in society and in the markets.
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