In explaining exactly why this is so bleak, Klippenstein references the dystopian science fiction movie Minority Report, where people are arrested not for anything they’ve done but for “pre-crime” predicted by people with psychic powers. In this real-world case, the “indicia” (indicators) of future political violence listed in the report are:
anti-Americanism,
anti-capitalism,
anti-Christianity,
support for the overthrow of the United States Government,
extremism on migration,
extremism on race,
extremism on gender
hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family,
hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on religion, and
hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on morality.
This is probably more performative nonsense and won’t really change what’s already happening, but it makes me irrationally angry. The bastards want to kill us for having the gall to complain about them killing us. The planet’s gonna cook and the vulnerable will suffer and they’ll keep the fires going until someone finally stops them, all in the name of protecting an imagined feeling of superiority. One hopes that there are future historians and they’ll look back on this time as a profound dark age but I haven’t been optimistic about that in a while.