> I think violence is going to become more common
What kind and why?
What kind and why?
That said, I think the why is more complicated. At least in the US I think there's a general sense that the world is backsliding, and that people feel like any bump on the road of life risks turning into a complete derailment. But this doesn't lead to any one particular ideology or course of action, so much as externalization of angst, whether against individuals, systems, or the "nobody pays attention to our angst let's burn it all down" attitude that's somewhat widespread.
Some of us are cautiously optimistic.
So all of us can figure out what we can do … whether it be staying sane, focusing our efforts where they matter, donating, … I don’t have a magic bullet. But this country is worth fighting for.
Maybe because in many ways it can be?
Unexpected medical condition -> crushing debt
Police stop goes bad
Job loss for reasons outside of your control
Wildfires burn your house down, or some other natural disaster
- violent anti-government rhetoric (not a new phenomenon at all)
- huge availability of guns
- explicit links between the two by second-amendment advocates of violence against the government
- very little of what would normally be called political violence (Jan 6 is an exception, but a significant one)
- a huge amount of "radicalized" gun violence against schoolchildren (Columbine to Uvalde, etc)
This doesn't feel very stable. It relies on people's actions never matching their words. As soon as someone turns a gun on an elected representative there's a risk of the situation escalating. Or someone could independently reinvent the carbomb, a common factor in situations from the IRA to Iraq.