The genocide of US LGBT+ folks is in progress

Conservatives know that the political climate is not right just yet to start mass arresting or massacring LGBT folks (stages 8 and 9 of genocide). But by passing laws to strip away their rights and to literally silence their voices and act like they don't merit being treated like human beings, pretty much every Republican-dominated state is at least at stage 6.

For years, many decent people have pooh-poohed warnings that the country was going in this direction. "Overreaction," "Exaggeration," "Don't be hysterical"...

The problem is that decent people tend to lack the imagination of sociopaths. They assume that almost everyone is as decent as them and that the aberrents are too few and disparate to engage in anything worse than the odd individual act of depravity.

When sociopathy is normalized and they become numerous enough to seize power structures, a nightmare is what follows. And we are headed in that direction, mark my words.

(Pseudo-)Christian theocrats, funded by US extremists, are already doing a test run in Africa.