{"id":215567,"date":"2020-10-26T08:22:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T08:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=215567"},"modified":"2020-10-28T05:33:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T05:33:22","slug":"is-history-about-to-repeat-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=215567","title":{"rendered":"Is History About To Repeat Itself?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Rixon Stewart \u2013 Oct 25, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Biden-Trump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-215455\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Biden-Trump-768x432.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Biden-Trump-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Biden-Trump-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Biden-Trump.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>In 2016 the New York Times confidently predicted that Hillary Clinton had an <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2016\/upshot\/presidential-polls-forecast.html\">85% chance of winning<\/a><\/span> the U.S. presidential election, over Trump&#8217;s 15%. In fact a few weeks earlier the Times predicted that Hillary Clinton had even more favourable odds with \u201c<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/newsgraphics\/2016\/10\/18\/presidential-forecast-updates\/newsletter.html\">a 91% chance to win<\/a><\/span>\u201d.<\/h5>\n<h5>The New York Times wasn\u2019t alone in stating that a win for Hillary Clinton was a near certainty. The Guardian also foresaw \u201c<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/oct\/27\/hillary-clinton-will-win-what-kind-of-president-white-house-obama\">a comfortable victory<\/a><\/span>\u201d for her, as did numerous other corporate media outlets:<\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2016\/10\/25\/politics\/hillary-clinton-2016-election-poll\/index.html\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Poll: Most see a Hillary Clinton victory and a fair count ahead<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-election-poll-electoral-idUSKCN12M0JR\">Clinton far ahead in Electoral College race: Reuters\/Ipsos poll<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ZpSjPHHxrF\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/top-pollsters-expect-clinton-to-win\/\">Top Pollsters Expect Clinton To Win<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Top Pollsters Expect Clinton To Win&#8221; &#8212; FiveThirtyEight\" src=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/top-pollsters-expect-clinton-to-win\/embed\/#?secret=ZpSjPHHxrF\" data-secret=\"ZpSjPHHxrF\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/10\/23\/hillary-clinton-so-far-ahead-in-polls-that-doesnt-even-think-abo\/\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Hillary Clinton so far ahead in polls that she &#8216;doesn&#8217;t even think about&#8217; Donald Trump anymore<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/opinion\/thomas-jefferson-street\/articles\/2016-10-28\/7-reasons-why-hillary-clintons-win-over-donald-trump-is-a-done-deal\">7 Reasons why Hillary Clinton\u2019s win over Donald Trump is a done deal<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/clinton-vaults-double-digit-lead-boosted-broad-disapproval\/story?id=42993821\">Clinton Vaults to a Double-Digit Lead, Boosted by Broad Disapproval of Trump (POLL)<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5>This sort of coverage wasn\u2019t confined to a few media outlets. There was near unanimity among talking heads and journalists that Clinton would win. But as we now know those forecasts were all wrong and by a wide margin.<\/h5>\n<h5>So you might think then that the mainstream media would be a little more cautious in forecasting the 2020 presidential election. But that\u2019s not the case and if anything it appears to be repeating the same pattern; confidently predicting a victory for President Trump\u2019s 2020 opponent, Joe Biden.<\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/oct\/25\/biden-trump-polls-elderly-suburban-women-voters\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Nine days out from election day, polling shows the Democratic nominee with big leads in key demographics<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/940116\/lets-real-biden-cruising-victory\">Let&#8217;s be real: Biden is cruising to victory<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2020\/09\/2020-polls-biden-trump-odds-better-than-ever.html\">5 Reasons Biden\u2019s Odds of Victory Look Better Than Ever<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/10\/24\/democrats-election-possible-biden-win-431829\">Scarred Democrats begin accepting a possible Biden win<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/fbf9461c-9962-4c59-ba10-70911cd4de48\">Concerns grow inside Downing Street as polls point to Biden victory<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5>Are we about to see history repeat itself? Is the corporate media covering the U.S. presidential race from an entirely neutral standpoint? I ask, not as a Trump supporter (I\u2019m not) but as someone who is dismayed by the way the media appears to be trying to manipulate public perception, rather than accurately and objectively report events.<\/h5>\n<h5>Either way, we will know in little more than a week. However, as a genuinely neutral observer watching from the other side of the Atlantic, I must say that I sense that Trump will win. I don\u2019t particularly like the guy or even trust him but looking at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=215224\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">size and the enthusiasm of his rallies<\/span><\/a> and how this contrasts with <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=215236\">Biden\u2019s poorly attended events<\/a> <\/span>it seems obvious.<\/h5>\n<h5>The differences between these events has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Summary-of-events-US-election-2020.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">well-documented<\/span><\/a>, although you would not know that from the corporate media&#8217;s coverage.<\/h5>\n<h5>Indeed, to the casual observer it almost seems as if the corporate media was trying to create the illusion of support for Joe Biden, as they once did with Hillary Clinton. The question is why?<\/h5>\n<h5>Will the election be rigged in Biden\u2019s favour? Or will Trump\u2019s claim of victory be marred by allegations of \u201cvote-rigging\u201d? Will the ignorant and uninformed, duped by the media and under the misapprehension that Trump has somehow stolen the election, then take to the streets? Causing mayhem on a scale we have yet to see.<\/h5>\n<h5>I would suggest that large segments of the U.S. are being primed for just such an outcome. Widening the divisions in an already fractured society, and spearheaded by the likes of antifa and BLM, they appear to have been psyched up to strive for the end for America, as we know it.<\/h5>\n<h5>Or so it might seem, for America has yet to fulfil its true destiny.<\/h5>\n<h5>According to Christian mystic and visionary <a href=\"https:\/\/epublications.marquette.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1078&amp;context=hist_fac\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Rudolf Steiner<\/span><\/a>, we are witnessing the emergence of a third great global empire. The first was centred in Rome and under its auspices humanity saw the emergence of the rule of law and logic. The second empire had London at its hub and under the mantle of the British Empire it delivered the beginnings of the physical sciences worldwide, together with the industrial revolution and man&#8217;s technical dominance of the physical realm.<\/h5>\n<h5>The third great global empire, according to Steiner, will have Moscow and the Slavic people at its heart. This era will see a great spiritual renaissance but first humanity will have to overcome a looming confrontation with the forces of darkness.<\/h5>\n<h5>Assuming humanity overcomes this encounter and Russia has its time as a great empire, then and only then, America will finally come into its own.<\/h5>\n<h5>According to Steiner this era of American cultural hegemony will last longer than any of the previous &#8220;empires&#8221;. I won\u2019t even speculate about what it will be like, other than to say that it will be more a way of life than a military-political construct and that the \u201cAmericans\u201d of this future global epoch maybe very different to the stereotypical Americans of today.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to November 2016, the media was sure that Hillary Clinton would win and we know what happened. Are we going to see a repeat performance this November?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs","category-Predictions_from_the_past_or_for_the_future"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215567"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215584,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215567\/revisions\/215584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}