The threat is real - It is time to prepare for the worst

The Christian Nationalist Fascist wing of the GQP controls state governments in Florida, Texas and in most GQP-controlled states. And they are up to the genocidal tricks of their religious and political forbears, albeit with a slightly different emphasis for their primary targeting.

In this modern variation on the theme, they are still following the Ten Stages of Genocide playbook.

In the current setting, the first group of victims are transgender kids.

The first moves based on a false claim that they are protecting girls they start with laws othering trans girls in school sports based on largely specious claims as to facts, denying them access to school restrooms and locker rooms that appropriately comport to their gender. Also affecting trans boys, as they end up having to use the girls' facilities - these laws lead to bullying, ostracism, increased cultural stress, and are designed to increase the suicide rate.

Then the laws to deny access to appropriate medical care, once again on a false claim, that they are protecting children from being recruited by groomers and peer pressure (the rapid onset gender dysphoria canard); first to trans kids (and then extending to adults on Medicaid and prohibiting coverage by private insurance).

At the same time, they are criminalizing parents who are supportive of their children, arresting and imprisoning the parents, and placing the children in state-supervised care, where they are forcibly de-transitioned.

The laws to deny trans people access to gender-appropriate public restrooms to be followed by arrests and imprisonment in the wrong prisons, with either the trans individual in permanent solitary confinement, or subjected to cruel treatment and abuse by guards and other inmates,

They don't even really have to set up death camps, as the existing system will do their dirty work for them.

They are going after Drag Shows and Drag Queen Story Hours. Laws are in the hopper and being enacted to deny drag in the entertainment industry and written broadly enough to also to ban transgender people from performing at any sort of venue.

The entire LGBTQ+ community will be next - already there are laws in place in Florida such as the Don't Say Gay Law (as written it is only ridiculous but as interpreted it is being used to enforce cis-het grooming in schools and to suppress any mention of anything trans or gay in classrooms, even references to non-straight family relationships.

They are going after non-Christians in Florida - when a Jewish mom volunteered to do a Hannukah presentation focusing on holiday traditions but not mentioning God, at first the school district refused, until she threatened to sue (and at some point, when the Christian Nationalists exert greater control, they won't back down).

We've seen the SCOTUS overturn Roe, and many of these states have ramped up their War On Women (over and above, this also exacerbates their war on trans men, too) doubled down on their abuse of reproductive rights, with outright bans on abortion, criminalizing miscarriages, and hamstringing doctors who can no longer provide many kinds of necessary medical care to pregnant people.

The rise of the sinister constitutional sheriff movement further underpins the far-right Christian Nationalist drive toward genocide - in many jurisdictions, the police protect the white supremacists and Christian Nationalists and look the other way when they get violent, attacking Drag Shows and LGBTQ+ night clubs - the shooting in Colorado Springs might have been averted if the local sheriff (a member of the seditious constitutional sheriff movement) had obeyed the law - instead his refusal to enforce the law is only punishable as a misdemeanor, and there has been no move by state authorities to remove him from office and prosecute.

People of color are already impacted by the stop woke and so-called Critical Race Theory bullshit (again, this time to protect white children from knowing their parents are white supremacist extremists) - when these White Supremacist Christian Nationalists say they are against CRT, they mean they are against the teaching of history in classrooms, instead pushing the false narratives that have been woven into American history textbooks since 1905.

Incredibly, these POS Christian Nationalists have won relatively easily in the 2022 elections in these states, despite the electorate knowing about these things - and now we know why those elections went the way they did in Germany in the early 1930's - as with the Germans, people in these GQP states do not care, as long as they are not the (current) targets or do not see themselves as targets (white Christian women, as one example, who vote against their interests).

I'm concerned about the situation, including the worry that 2024 might bring them into control of the Senate, the House and the Presidency, so they can ambitiously pursue the genocide on a national basis.

I've researched, and it appears that my born-in-Sicily paternal grandfather was not naturalized as an American citizen until nearly a year after my father was born - that allows me, if I jump through all the documentation hoops, to apply for Italian citizenship under their jus sanguinis law. (My eldest son is also in the process, and I have asked if I can piggyback on his application.)

Getting that dual citizenship would mean I could also get an Italian passport, and escape to the EU once things get bad enough. If the 2024 election goes the way it might, I'll have from November 2024 to mid-January 2025 to safely get over there. Being in New York, if I stay after that, I might still be able to escape through Canada even after January 2025, if I want to wait and see if they're really going to do this.