 This is so much like the mass human sacrifices in societies in the past, which took place in large, complex empires, not unlike ours. It wasn't primitive, what we would then call primitive tribes. They were big, complex societies, and that's what we're seeing here. Perhaps this revival of mass human sacrifice in the United States is just a passing thing that will go away. As I was thinking about it, on the other hand, the Republicans have for 40 years now been doing a different kind of what is effectively mass human sacrifice in terms of gun deaths and eliminating all gun regulation. The insane level to which these people are demonizing one side of the political spectrum should leave you wondering why. To answer that question, I'll reference an episode of the Outer Limits where soldiers are brainwashed to see fellow humans as insectoid aliens. Right now, they're in the process of turning us into inhuman monsters. So just use your imagination.