I've been saying for years that the only way to bring about the global police state depicted in Revelation is to strip people of their wealth and freedom - which is a lot easier to do after you disarm the people. The third world has been exploited for decades and decades, but in the last 30 years or so, the West is really falling all over itself to accommodate Leftist ideology. America will not only go the way of the rest of the world, but is the Second Beast of Revelation 13 which will force the entire world to bow down to the First Beast, the Papacy. If the Reformers had lived long enough, they would have easily seen this to be the case. Even 'ol John Wesley said in 1773 that the time of the Papal First Beast to receive it's deadly wound was almost here (1798) and the Second Beast was soon to arise, which America did right on time.