All empires fall. All. The American Empire will be no exception. That does not mean it will fall in 1975, 1988, 2000, 2012, 2013. Each of these dates has been advocated by one person/group or another as The End.
There is an interesting false assumption built into these dates. It is the assumption that the current malaise (still a great word even if President Carter never said it) needs to be associated with The End. This faulty Americocentric outlook is that the obvious crisis that is coming to the US means Jesus must return soon.
I am sure that the end of British domination after the 19th century led many British patriots to predict the return of Jesus. Maybe Spanish mystics felt the same way when their empire ended after a 200 year domination of the world. But the world survived the end of Rome, the end of Madrid, and the end of London. (Note that each of these cities still exists today.) The world will survive the end of Washington, thank you very much.
I am mulling over these things because of a promotion video. The promoters hope that you will attend Freedomfest in Las Vegas in July. I have no plans to attend, nor do I know anything about it and for that reason cannot recommend it.
But promo video is cool.
Are We Rome? FreedomFest 2013 from Smooky on Vimeo.