By the time the FBI first showed up to Kevin Patrick Smith’s home in early February, he’d already left dozens of threatening voice messages for US Senator Jon Tester.
This was the political climate in the 1880s through 1920s too. Tons of kings and presidents were killed and there were bombings in public places. Concealable revolvers and cheap dynamite enabled anarchists and revolutionary groups.
This is why the Nobel Prizes exist. The inventor of dynamite didn’t want to be known as the origin of all this violence, so he sponsored these prizes.
It went away. Things change. That’s the one constant: change.
Never is a long time. Just in the US, about 60 years after the caning of Sumner, we saw a very different political climate at the beginning of World War I. It’ll take time, but I think we can change it for the better
A quick reminder this is the political climate now. This is never going away.
This was the political climate in the 1880s through 1920s too. Tons of kings and presidents were killed and there were bombings in public places. Concealable revolvers and cheap dynamite enabled anarchists and revolutionary groups.
This is why the Nobel Prizes exist. The inventor of dynamite didn’t want to be known as the origin of all this violence, so he sponsored these prizes.
It went away. Things change. That’s the one constant: change.
Never is a long time. Just in the US, about 60 years after the caning of Sumner, we saw a very different political climate at the beginning of World War I. It’ll take time, but I think we can change it for the better