That's a lot of what makes it so bizarre. I have no idea what was happening in the rest of the country but in school I watched a bunch of films by Jewish directors about the Holocaust and it's aftermath, we read Maus, we read Anne Frank's diary. When the Rwanda genocide was committed in 94 it was all over the news. I heard all about ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. People seemed to know about ISIS murdering Druze and Yazidis, the libs were all up in arms about Xinjiang for years.

And now some of them, enough of them to shock and anger and terrify me, are ardent genocide supporters. Not just in Palestine by in Yemen, too. Genocide denial is reflexive and totally unselfconscious, the easiest thing in the world. It's shocking the way belly flopping in to a glacier stream is shocking. Just an absolute punch to the soul. It's already frightening here, driving through urban and suburban neighborhoods, seeing the thin blue line stickers and US flags and trump stickers on vehicles so you know that the owner is an armed fascist just waiting for marching orders. Now half the libs are not only supporting genocide but pressuring others to do so, while at the same time scoffing and mocking the idea that political action to stop any of this is even possible, calling it immoral to try and denouncing condemnation of their leader as "purity politics".

I've said for well over a decade now that the US was only ever a few years from genocide no matter who was in charge, and it started out as kind of a flip thing but has turned in to more of a Cassandra screaming in mute horror thing. I strongly agree with the third worldists about America's revolutionary potential. I can't see anything happening here for a generation, and I don't know that there's much American leftists can do except protect people where we can and try to trip up the empire if possible.