A PRRI survey out Wednesday shows that nearly a quarter of Americans support political violence heading into the 2024 presidential election, as an overwhelming majority believe democracy is at risk.

  • zkfcfbzr
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    538 months ago

    There are over 300 million people in the country. There’s at least some of everything on each side of everything. That doesn’t make it wrong to say political violence in the US is primarily a right-wing problem.

    • @Salamendacious@lemmy.worldOP
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      I’d agree that it’s primarily a right wing problem. My point is that it isn’t 100% a right wing problem and the willingness to use political violence is going up to at least some degree across all America.

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        8 months ago

        It’s a strawman then. Nobody in this thread, including the person you originally replied to, claimed political violence is literally 100% exclusive to the right wing. I think you’d be hard-pressed to find a single person anywhere who would make that claim in good faith.

        And that’s nothing new, either. Go to any place in any time period and you’ll find some nonzero amount of political violence from any side of sufficient size. The major problem comes when a large proportion of one side starts thinking that political violence is okay. In the US today, that only describes the right.