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 16th
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.
