The Measure

by Nikki Erlick

In America, where the populace had proven time and again to be particularly susceptible to paranoia, suspicions took root deeply and quickly.

It’s like we’re living in a fucking time loop where no one’s learned anything from history! Once people start believing that a certain group is out to get them—that immigrants are stealing their jobs, and gay couples are undermining marriage, and feminists are falsely accusing them of rape—it doesn’t take much to get us to turn on each other.”