Is the scenario really more like the outcome is known, and nothing can stop that eventuality from happening? Many individual events may not be controlled by the patriots, but the major events that keep us moving toward the outcome are. I hate to use a movie analogy, but it’s like what’s revealed or realized in Terminator 3 at the end. Even though John Connor thought he and his mother stopped Judgment Day years ago, they only succeeded in delaying it. It was always going to happen.