Are Democrats and Republicans on the Road to Genocide?

Dr Franklin H Littell was an American scholar who spent ten years working on deNazification projects in Germany and dedicated his life to Holocaust and Genocide studies. He has witnessed at first hand the effects of genocide, and has extensively studied the sociological happenings that create the proper political environment for genocide to occur. In 1988 he published an article titled Early Warning, focused on identifying political movements with genocidal intent before it's too late. Included in this article is a list of 15 criteria of events or attributes of a political movement that imply a future genocide, and he says that if any one party portrays 10-11 of these criteria, “it's time for the alarm bells to start ringing.”

Additionally, the Encyclopedia of Genocide, edited by Israel W Charny, cites the same article with an additional 16^th criteria, and states that a pattern of only 8 to 10 attributes “should be enough to start red flags waving.”

Well, what if I told you both the Democratic and Republican parties of America meet precisely 8 of them, with a ninth occurring naturally in the country?

I might as well be writing a blog about how not to be popular with Americans.

Everything's Booming, Almost

Mankind is going through a chain of booms. We've experienced the population boom, economies boom on and off, and most influentially the great technology boom. Additionally, there's been a data boom, a communication boom, and it can even be ventured to say we're beginning an ethics boom. What's missing?

Let's talk about a few things mentioned above. Population and economy are discussed extensively enough in other sources. What is this technology boom though? It's not as clearly defined, nor are it's ramifications. We know computers were invented only a handful of decades ago, and they've evolved at an exponential rate since then. What does this mean for us? Well, according to some sociologists, cultures merge from the technology of their peoples. This seems accurate enough, it's observable today, especially in the first world, but our technology has also lead to a globalized economy as companies spread across multiple nations, countries and their people communicate over the internet, Google creates a map of the entire planet. This leads to impacts on third world countries, and their cultures have been influenced slightly. Throughout the connected world, people are demanding more things, things like more jobs, more food, more connectivity, more rights, things that we didn't need to emphasize on as much before our population boomed. How do limited resources and large numbers of people influence culture? Let's just ask al-Shabab.