Actually, it takes four generations, thus the 80-year cycle. 80 years ago the depression & WWII, 80 years prior to that our civil war and 80 years prior to that the revolutionary war (not exactly 80, but close). Our country was settled initially by Anglos. The 80-year cycle is repeated there before they arrived here also.
Here is a link to a review of a book a friend of mine wrote several years ago. The book is an incredible read and very prophetic! It is well researched. If you can’t read the book, read the review.
http://myfourthturningreview.com/
Two points come to mind, that seem to be new additions to this discussion.
First, it was stated that America is not mentioned in the Biblical prophecies of the end time. That may not be the case if the New Jerusalem is meant to refer to a place in the United States. Mormons and some evangelicals believe this to be the case.
The second point follows that. One potential resolution of what seems to be an inevitable slide into conflict would be the end times, not an avoidance of the conflict but a context and to any believer an indication of the outcome.
I think this is how the impasse will end, and it could be at any time since interpretation of times and places is such a complex and nebulous thing that nobody could be sure that we had not already passed certain milestones — and certainly the times resemble the prophesied last days, right down to the detail that families would be torn apart by differing beliefs.
The process that I would expect as resolution would be a consolidation of Kingdom power in some part of the United States as its initial base and a spreading out from there to include all who would be saved. There might be some time given for those who had bought into false paradigms and unworkable ideologies to discard them in favor of allegiance to the Kingdom.
I see a lot of the progressive left as being deluded individuals who have some desire to do good but no idea how human nature actually works, then combined with the overhyped fears of climate catastrophe, increasingly convinced that they must act to tear down what we see as personal freedom and replace it with a sort of new medievalism where everyone’s life is confined to a few miles and total service to the local power base.
Of course, since human nature is operational in this, the more worldly leftists also imagine that if large numbers obey this ideological command, it won’t hurt the environment if they themselves are mobile, in other words, have the freedoms that they propose to take from us.
This will be the perfect mirror image of Soviet communism in that millions will empower the system by voluntarily living in poverty (or dying in labor camps if they dissent) while a small elite live high off the hog since they control everything and nobody can prevent it. The workers are then indoctrinated to believe that the elites are just taking a bit of time to refresh themselves to complete Lenin’s tasks.
We need Jesus down here to sort this out, would you not agree? It strikes me that Trump is an excellent front man for the end times. At least with him you’ve got somebody who is going to recognize the necessity and advantages of full co-operation while with any given Democrat or RINO I suspect they would want to offer resistance and might even frame it as a constitutional duty (ironic since the nation was founded on the premise that blessings of personal liberty would be enhanced by faith in God).
As to when this might be, I perceive it could be about equally any year from now to about 2030, but possibly more likely before 2025 than after 2025.