What EA has turned into is analogous to what the US Government has turned into.
It took 250 years for the US to go from the constitution to ICE detention centers and banned journalists, but it only took EA 15 years to go from 'donating to the poor' to 'sacrificing real present humans for the sake of future theoretical humans'.
That seems like a rather tribal take on your part. Are you not accounting for the indigenous people who were killed and displaced? What about slavery and Jim Crow? What about women not having the right to vote until 1920? What about the many wars? Only now you take issue with the current situation because your preferred party is not in power?
Good point. The US has always sacrificed people. That's not really a new thing.
But that we look at it differently today has nothing to do with any particular party or who is in power (that has little relation to the parties of today), but with the fact that we live today, and have a tendency to glorify the past. (And there's definitely an attempt to whitewash history, ignore all the terrible things the US has done and pretend the US was always great and perfect.)
But there's also the belief that over time, we should be learning and doing better, and we wouldn't do those terrible things of the past anymore. So the shock when they do happen is real. And the current US government is pretty explicit about wanting to bring back all the horrors of the past.
It took 250 years for the US to go from the constitution to ICE detention centers and banned journalists, but it only took EA 15 years to go from 'donating to the poor' to 'sacrificing real present humans for the sake of future theoretical humans'.