Is America Committing National Suicide?

James F. Gauss, Ph.D.

April 29, 2023

(Reposted February 10, 2026)

The following is excerpted from Revelation 18 and the Fate of America (2021 Edition), pages 362-364.

Ten Stages of Genocide (i.e. National Suicide).  In 1996, Dr. Gregory Stanton developed the  “Eight Stages of Genocide” as a professor at Mary Washington University. He later increased the number to ten. He is the founder of Genocide Watch, an organization that monitors genocidal trends and events and contributes to governmental policies of genocide. Although his ten stages of genocide are meant to identify genocidal trends within despotic nations, his insights  serve as an unintended guide and warning to the United States as it continues on the road to cultural and spiritual decline and self- annihilation.

1. Classification. All cultures have categories to distinguish people into “us and them” by ethnicity, race, religion, or nationality: German and Jew, Hutu and Tutsi. If societies are  too segregated (divided) they are most likely to have genocide.
2. Symbolization. We give names or other symbols to the classifications of ethnicity, race, religion, or nationality. We name people “Jews” or “Gypsies”, or distinguish them by colors or dress, and apply them to members of groups. Classification and symbolization are universally human and do not necessarily result in genocide unless they lead to the stage of dehumanization.
3. Discrimination. A dominant group uses law, custom, and political power to deny the rights of other groups. The powerless group may not be given full civil rights or even citizenship. Prevention against discrimination means full political empowerment and citizenship rights for all groups in    a society.
4. Dehumanization. Dehumanization is when one group treats  another group as second-class citizens. Members of a persecuted group may be compared with animals, parasites, insects or diseases. When a group of people is thought of as “less than human” it is easier for the group in control to murder them.
5. Organization. Genocide is always organized, usually by the  state, though sometimes informally or by terrorist groups. Special army units or militias are often trained and armed.
6. Polarization. Extremists drive the groups apart. Hate groups  broadcast propaganda that reinforces prejudice and hate. Laws may forbid intermarriage or social interaction between     the groups. Extremist terrorism targets moderates, and intimidates them so that they are silent.
7. Preparation. National or perpetrator group leaders . . . often  use euphemisms to cloak their intentions, such as referring to  their goals as “ethnic cleansing,” “purification,” or “counter-terrorism.”
8. Persecution. Victims are identified and separated out because of their ethnic or religious identity. Death lists are drawn up. In state sponsored genocide, members of victim groups may be forced to wear identifying symbols.
9. Extermination. Extermination begins, and quickly becomes  the mass killing legally called “genocide.” It is “extermination” to the killers because they do not believe their victims to be fully human . . .
10. Denial. It is among the surest indicators of further genocidal    massacres. The perpetrators of genocide dig up the mass graves, burn the bodies, try to cover up the evidence and intimidate the witnesses.

Source: Stanton, Gregory H. Ten Stages of Genocide, The Genocide Education Project. https://www.genocideeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ten_stages_of_genocide.pdf

The question we may all ponder: Where is America in this process that is often attributed to despotic Third World countries?

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