John P. Franklin's Predictions: Are They Coming True?

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Franklin’s insight has proven true as America has faced threats to its democratic institutions, both from within and without. From voter apathy to challenges against free and fair elections, the health of American democracy is continually tested. Here are six chilling predictions, in their own words, that are now coming to fruition : Benjamin Franklin worried that a salaried bureaucracy could breed career politicians. In 1787, Franklin stood before the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, warning against a generously salaried congress:. No , it’s the predictions that actually do come to fruition that are worth keeping an eye on. And while most prognosticators from the past get more things wrong than right, every now and then, somebody hits the mark so perfectly that their prediction becomes eerily prescient. Our countdown of historical predictions that actually came true includes the Assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. & President John F. Kennedy, The Internet, The Cold War, Debit Cards, The Great Fire of London, and more! From the exact date of James Dean’s death to a vision of cellphones before 1910, here are 30 predictions that nobody actually expected to come true , and yet that’s exactly what happened. The Bible contains numerous future predictions . From ancient history to the modern day, here are some actual Bible prophecies that eventually came true . Nostradamus became famous in his own lifetime for publishing a long series of prophecies which continue to mystify, intrigue and (frankly) exasperate us to this day. The fact that he wrote in enigmatic poems, or quatrains, means that his words can be endlessly reinterpreted to fit historical events.