You may have raised a key point about government forces exterminating troublesome populations and excess humans.
There’s an entire school of thought on the Left that regards human existence as both superfluous in general and harmful to the “natural order”. There are those futuristic scenarios of what happens to cities when all the humans have ceased to exist; “World Without People” or something like that.
So a mindset already exists that human extermination for its own sake is not necessarily a bad thing. It’s nihilistic in the extreme; even the Nazis when wiping out the “subhumans” in lands wanted for German “lebensraum” had in mind that it was for the benefit of a superior Aryan race that was to multiply & thrive.
The seeing of certain human beings as vermin fit only for extermination is an evil that has existed since time began. The horror now is that this mindset now flourishes in the corridors of power of this our nation.
By the way, this is the scariest thread I have ever, ever read in my years on FReepers. The absolute scariest.
“...By the way, this is the scariest thread I have ever, ever read in my years on FReepers. The absolute scariest....”
You ain’t alone, brother. But that’s the nature of things these days.
The author of the article blatantly wrote it to elicit exactly the responses it’s getting.