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In the run up to WW2 did Hitler deceive a people willing to be deceived? Scholars think so indeed. While most attributed the people's willingness to be deceived to mass hypnosis, others blamed what they claimed was deception orchestrated by Hitler the man. https://www.ushmm.org/m/pdfs/20150703-pr...-Guide.pdf

But in such special cases such as pre WW2 Germany for example, reason among the people seemed to have bee supplanted by something remarkable and in the secular sense, undefinable. Where does national, and for sake of this discussion, global reason run off to during such times? Take America 2022 for case in point. We currently celebrate criminality and demonize those things which are right according to Scripture and our own history. How could that which is wrong be vaulted into the limelight while that which is right is castigated and maligned? 

2 Thessalonians chapter 2
V9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, 
V10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 
V11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,
V12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

It would seem the world, not just the United States, is currently embroiled in the run up to the Tribulation via the process of Globalism. Globalism like a drug similar to that which intoxicated pre-WW2 Germany, is the on-ramp leading to the reign of Antichrist. He is as yet anonymous, but he will at some point relatively soon be revealed.

To turn one's back on God is to turn one's back on reason. According to His Word only a return to His grace could save this land.