Reality is supposed to be less evil than my dystopia

 I've had a lot of thinking moments this week.

Demon-rat and Democrap got slung at me.
These are common enough slurs, but this time they got me thinking harder.

Demon rat. Democrap

We are not even human.
We are demons to be banished.
We are rats to be killed.
We are shit to be scraped off the shoes of True White Christian Americans.
This is RTLM all over again, calling the Tutsis cockroaches and snakes.
Vermin to be exterminated 

I was tempted to post a picture of my family and demand to know which one they thought they should kill first? The pansexual school teacher? The trans school teacher? The bisexual medical coder? The asexual youtuber? The interracially married disabled vet? The queer and trans driver?

I did not.

Now, Tennessee has passed a law. This sign must be displayed by stores that have potty parity

A warning sign. That there are transfolks in the store. That they might use the restroom.

We are so dangerous we merit a warning sign
And laws to let medical personnel not treat us

And laws to keep us out of sports.

Things are getting ugly, and will only get worse. This state level stuff is retaliation. And the mindset that non-conservatives are vermin is just getting stronger.

We had a dress rehearsal for fascism. Now, we either pull ourselves out of it, and work on that more perfect union with liberty and justice for all, or we plunge headlong in.

I'm not sure which way we're going. But I'm taking big breaths, just in case.