Civil war. Revolution. Radical change to business as usual. Having watched and been an active part of the discussions here during the last American elections, hints of this manifest itself in various forms from all political candidates. Could this be a uniform call to for us to carry out the pre-decided course regardless of whom lives in the White House?
Retrocausality from the wiki is described as so:
Retrocausality is primarily a thought experiment in philosophy of science based on elements of physics, addressing whether the future can affect the present and whether the present can affect the past.[1] Philosophical considerations of time travel often address the same issues as retrocausality, as do treatments of the subject in fiction, although the two terms are not universally synonymous.
For the purpose of discussion, I'm going to dismiss the time travel aspects but would like to address the context of living in the context of a future event in the present.
Tv shows such as The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, and to a similar extent Preppers, prove that a dystopian future is well within the minds of Americans as well as romanticized over. Books, movies and music also mirror this evidence. It's prevalent.
Also, there is the situation of the self-fulfilling prophecy that works its way into the theory. Whether its a conscious or unconscious effort to form this reality should not go unmentioned.
A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prophecy itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behavior.
Evidence of this can be seen in the use of familiar literature such as George Orwell.
It's easy to explain the phenomena away as foreshadowing or making an educated guess based on the information provided. However, we have years of history that predicts an end to mankind and some sort of wasteland aftermath that we as humans will need to struggle through. Main question here is; is this by design or destiny?