Who's most likely to commit politically-motivated violence, the Left or the Right?
It is unlikely to surprise you that the answer is "people askew from reality," close to a wash between Republican-or-farther-right and Democrat-or-leftier, with "fricking incoherent" in close third place.
Most people, including the ones with political opinions that many Americans find reprehensible, know you can't assassinate your way to a better world, and a little selective murder produces only more dead people and grieving families. While major political upheaval often involves killings, it doesn't work the other way (and most Americans are not looking for major upheaval -- again, not even a majority of the ones you disagree with most).
Don't get sucked into the nitwittery.
Update
1 year ago
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A bit of a bipartisan plea on my part: "Be The Change in Public Discourse You Want To See". Each side needs to call out the people on their own side that are calling for radical action, because nobody really listens when it's coming from the other side.
Heaven knows that the Republicans have plenty of radical nitwits to be officially rebuked and disavowed. And the Democrats also have plenty of radical nitwits like Hassan Piker that need the same treatment from their own party.
Sadly, it's a lot easier for each team to point at the radical nitwits on the other team as a means to excuse their own, and that is, as the old saying goes, Not Helping. Yeahbutting never really does.
For some reason, self-criticism has fallen out of favor, probably under the mistaken impression that it is somehow helping the Other Team if one points out problems on their own.
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