Resorting To Violence

TWENTY THREE PERCENT of the American people believe that it could possibly become necessary to use violence to save the United States, according to surverys, studies, and assiduous research. The exact question was worded something like: "If the United States were in danger or trouble, and you see violence as the only way to save the country, would you be in favor of it?" Obviously, this is somewhat of a loaded question. The way its phrased, it makes it almost impossible to say "no". By saying no, you are, according to the loaded question, dooming the United States to extinction, a hideous fate which can only be avoided by your personal choice to utilize violence in her (USA) defense. Under such circumstances, who wouldn't be willing to engage in violence? If a foreign army were shooting at me, yes, I would shoot back. We can assume for the sake of simplicity that we are referring to violence enacted by Americans against other Americans. But even when the proposition is put in a less leading manner, a more neutral, logical wording, about the same proportion of the population indicates a willingness to not only choose, but to instigate violence in defense of the imaginary America they believe in and love. Tellingly, but perhaps not surprisinglu, the most of the twenty three of Americans willing to descend into violence are conservative Republicans, indeed, conservative evangelical Republicans. About one in three Republicans answers "yes" to the violence question, but only about thirteen percent of Democrats do. If this seems strange or misleading or possibly even rigged, consider this: More than twelve hundred people have been convicted of federal crimes because of their participation in the January 2021 Capitol insurrection, and all of them, every single one, maintains to this day that they did it for Trump, and only for Trump, only because the president told them to. To this day, a large majority of American conservative evangelical Republicans still claim that the election was stolen from Trump, and that the insurrection was, basically, necessary and appropriate. Those are conservative evangalical Republicans, not left wing liberal secular Democrats. Not only that, but many Republicans, showing their true character,falsely blame the insurrection on Democrats, ludicrously. Well, shame on them. Precisely who the more violent people are in American society becomes obvious. Overwhelmingly, instances of political violence in America in our modern society are perpetrated by far right wingers, not liberals. That, as they say, is just the fact. The FBI would be happy to confirm it. The gun ownership fanatics are sll on the far right, as are most of the violent people. This is a dangerous, volatile combination, the sort of people who attended Trump's insurrection rally, then carried out the violent insurrection which killed at least seven people and maimed for life dozens more. The percentage of Americans willing to resort to political violence had been steadily growing since Mr.Trump entered politics in 2015 with his angry, hostile, aggressive rhetoric. The new apostles of violence, almost to a man, are devout Trumpers. Conservatives, always eager to change the subject, like to point to the imaginary organization "Antifa" as a left wing example of violent organizations. The problem with this is that Antifa, as mentioned above, does not actually exist, it is merely an ideal, the ideal being "anti-fascism", which in America means anti Trumpist right wing populism.