The thing about prophesy is that humanity is predictable, a fact that is forming right before our eyes in this day and age with current events occurring in politics of America. After World War 2, we as a collective witnessed what fascism entails, and now, 80 years later, we're watching it form all over again within our own Republican Party. Trump has been quoted about stating that he'd enact dictatorship directives the first day he gets into office (again). Read Project 2025. It's just scary!
Anyway, back to Nostradamus, I feel that prophesy is easier when there is an organized control over the population -- as I mentioned above, we tend to repeat history. However, since many more people are waking up and realizing that we as a collective have been manipulated and outright lied to for much if not all of our lives, we're seeing the true sinister actions that have been going on behind the shadows with the advent of Social Media, and we're beginning to hold those people in power accountable.
It was only a matter of time before anybody who takes an honest look around and uses some critical thinking skills to see the bigger picture, identifies that there will be a massive shift, a change in the way of life. As far as specific prophesies though, I believe that we can see events that will happen, even if we can only see stuff in our dream-state. We don't have the vocabulary to describe what is being seen.
Also, note that whenever most people try to nail down a specific time, they often fail. That's because we've recently discovered through Quantum Physics, that time is an illusion, and doesn't really exist. It's an artificial construct that our mind has to keep events organized, because the reality is that everything that has ever happened, or will ever happen is currently happening now.
Furthermore, if I may be so bold, Quantum Physics also states that everybody is me, and I am everybody. You are I and I am You. (Confusing, I know), but we're all fractals of the same Source (and fractals, are the same shape, either getting smaller and smaller, or combining to make an ever larger and larger shape, of the same shape.
Therefore, yes, I believe that prophesy can and does work.