Posted on 07/23/2022 5:34:11 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
A large study confirms one in five Americans believes violence motivated by political reasons is—at least sometimes—justified. Nearly half expect a civil war, and many say they would trade democracy for a strong leader, a preprint posted today on medRxiv found.
“This is not a study that’s meant to shock,” says Rachel Kleinfeld, a political violence expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace who was not involved in the research. “But it should be shocking.”
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He and his colleagues surveyed more than 8600 adults in English and Spanish about their views on democracy in the United States, racial attitudes in U.S. society, and their own attitudes toward political violence. The respondents were part of the Ipsos KnowledgePanel—an online research panel that has been used widely, including by Wintemute for research on violence and firearm ownership. The team then applied statistical methods to extrapolate the survey results to the entire country.
“The fact that basically half the country is expecting a civil war is just chilling,” Wintemute says. And many expect to take part. If found in a situation where they think violence is justified to advance an important political objective, about one in five respondents thinks they will likely be armed with a gun. About 7% of participants—which would correspond to about 18 million U.S. adults—said they would be willing to kill a person in such a situation.
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Liberals are only shocked when people don’t play nice and surrender.
“I’m ready. I’ll be the grandma out in front.”
Barbara Fritchie!
I’m not sweating widespread civil conflict until the 40% + obesity rate starts decreasing. I think the US might be too fat to revolt.
Freegards
BTW: This is the real reason for the rush to confiscate the firearms of the American people. The DemonRATS couldn’t care less about children being shot up by their classmates in school. They feel the same way about school kids than they do about infants. The RATS prefer them dead.
2 sides fighting for control of one government is a civil war
That’s not what is happening
It’s communists overthrowing our government to replace it with communism.
That’s not two sides ( like a coin)
It’s America
and Communist enemies
J mho.
We’re pretty much there now.
It won’t be a civil war.
At some point in the very not too distant future the grocery stores shelves will be empty because of Brandon “ending fossil fuels” and the delivery system that depends on “fossil fuels.” There will still be plenty of food, just not where people can get to it.
That’s when his millions of “immigrants” are going to start roaming the countryside like the Walking Dead.
As a matter of fact, I would bet all the apocalyptic movies and TV shows over the past sixty years were CIA psyops intended to make a segment of the population look forward to apocalyptic anarchy so they can do anything they want to anybody they want.
This government has become the government our founders warned of.
You just described two sides. :)
Zombie movies and TV for a decade
Then faucicovid.
Pavlov.
Barbara Fritchie!
They won’t write poems about me but I could take a bullet or two.
I believe that is correct.. The rule of law would be completely one-sided.. Much like we already have with the O'Biden bunch.
There are many coomie countries with their fingers in this so if anything it’s multiple sides.
My point is it’s not 2 sides of Americans fighting.
They aren’t Americans
they are commies
There is no agreement to come to.
/-)
The commies are technically citizens
And they think they are the patriots.
Its the bolsheviks and mensheviks all over.
Its always bad when the Empire thinks they are actually the Rebels.
When the ‘Rats say “Our Democracy”, they are not kidding.
Service means citizenship.
They seem very disappointed that their propaganda hasn’t convinced everyone to submit to Fascist rule meekly.
I think it'll be low-level insurgencies among various armed factions, much like what went on in Latin America during the 70s and 80s.
The population in 1776 was 2.5 million.
As best as historians can tell...
30,000 colonists fought for the British (1.2%).
231,000 colonists fought for independence (9.2%).
John Adams thought about 33% of the colonists supported independence, 33% supported Britain, and 33% percent supported neither side.
https://norberthaupt.com/2011/01/16/u-s-population-in-1776-and-1790/
Whoa. Question of the evening.
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