{"id":2231,"date":"2022-01-31T22:12:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T22:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2022-01-31T22:12:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T22:12:51","slug":"nearly-1-in-5-republican-men-believe-violence-against-the-government-is-now-justified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2022\/01\/31\/nearly-1-in-5-republican-men-believe-violence-against-the-government-is-now-justified\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 1 in 5 Republican men believe violence against the government is now justified"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you can believe this article, anyway: Poll: 1 in 4 Americans say violence against the government is sometimes OK<\/a> <\/p>\n

I’m disappointed that only 1 in 4 think violence is “sometimes OK.” It should be 4 in 4. Of course it’s sometimes<\/i> okay. <\/p>\n

One in 10 Americans say violence is justified right now. And among Republican men, it’s nearly 1 in 5.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m disappointed that 1 in 5 Republican men believe things are so bad that violence against the government is justified now.<\/i> I strongly disagree with that. <\/p>\n

What do you do about a statistic like that? 1 in 10 Americans believe the government is so bad that we’d be justified in fighting against it. Real fighting,<\/i> not protests and such. <\/p>\n

A sensible response would be to try to find out why people believe that, and try to fix the problem. <\/p>\n

Rational people only choose violence when they believe non-violent remedies won’t work. Why do 1 in 10 Americans think non-violent remedies won’t work? Do they feel as if they’re not being heard? Do they feel as if they’ve been asking for the same thing for decades (e.g., fixing the immigration problem) and the government pays no attention? Do they distrust the election system? <\/p>\n

Some will want to blame fake news, crazy websites, radical politicians, YouTube channels, etc., but I think that’s backwards. Those sources are popular because their message resonates, and their message resonates because people are frustrated. The solution is not to shut down the channels, but to find out why the message resonates — and fix it. <\/p>\n

Maybe look at things like this: 20 years of data reveals that Congress doesn’t care what you think.<\/a><\/p>\n

I have little hope of this happening. <\/p>\n

What’s more likely to happen is that the people in power will deny the problem, wag their fingers at the 1 in 10, demonize them, call them deplorables, etc. As that doesn’t work, they’ll take increasingly tyrannical steps to silence the 1 in 10, which will backfire and make those numbers even worse. Eventually we’ll get to the tipping point where too many people believe the only solution is violence. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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