There’s a growing number of Americans who think violence might be necessary to get the country back on track
There’s a growing number of Americans who think violence might be necessary to get the country back on track

There’s a growing number of Americans who think violence might be necessary to get the country back on track

Nearly a third of Americans – 30% – say people may have to resort to violence in order to get the country back on track, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll.
It’s a sharp rise from 18 months ago, when 19% of Americans said the same.
Historically, it has always taken violence to remove fascists from power.
The problem with all of this is that the right is literally saying this exact same thing.
We dismiss it because it's ludicrous, because they HAVE all the power, their guy IS the deep state that controls everything, but our media world has fashioned a narrative for our stupidest segment that they're the oppressed underdogs.
Meaning, no matter what happens, even if we get our best outcome and drag this administration onto the White House lawn, we still have to live next to millions and millions of people who think we've been planning to do that to them for decades now.
There is no good solution that doesn't involve some kind of new leadership that needs to be built from the ground up and will likely take generations to nurture and develop.
They already believe that. There's no point in asking your oppressor if they are uncomfortable with you getting oppressed. Just ask any school bully.
So what though? If it gets to the point of having to violently overview the government, we're past the point of precedent. We can just use their beloved AI to scrub social media profiles and purge them from the voting registry. Sure they'll believe that was the plan all along, but we'd have a few decades where the scales were tipped so far in our favor that their children and grandchildren could be properly educated without all the revisionist bullshit.
Facebook clowns laughed at me when I said that you can vote in fascism, but you have to shoot your way out.
Not always. The Portuguese carnation revolution happened without violence. Spain democratised right after Franco's death.
How can you say "Spain democratized after francos death" as if the entire bloody Spanish Civil War didn't happen?
By that same logic it seems that Germany also overcame fascism peacefully, because Germany democratized right after Hitlers death.
So violence, military coup or heart failure?