Is genocide in America's future?

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13. One never says never

However, when employing rhetoric of this kind, I'm going to need some evidence that such a thing is imminently likely.

I do not see evidence that it is likely, nor has any attempt been made to do so outside of rhetoric.

I do pay attention. What I do not do is emotionally invest in narrative nor let rhetoric and media prey upon my limbic system to get me all riled up and an anxiety-ridden, fearful mess. I see Florida. It's a thing. What I found funny this week is something people have been slamming Florida for as "Totally fascism!" was then celebrated when California did it. Like, not a single person made a single comment going, "Wait. Isn't that the same exact thing?" Maybe a lot of perception is being colored by where one is situated politically.

So maybe it's not objectively true that things are going the Hitler route. Maybe - just maybe - the narrative that it is has been deployed in order to keep people in an emotional, politically-useful state.

I cannot predict what will be true in 50 years, but I do know our current times are not "Just like the 1930s!" so I'm going to react to this sort of thing accordingly. Which is usually an eye roll.

As I said, there is work to do, bad policies, ideas, and politics to swat down.

But genocide, no. And it devalues actual genocides that have occurred to throw around the word so cheaply for a bit of rhetorical theater to get the blood pumping.