Nearly a third of Americans – 30% – say people may have to resort to violence in order to get the country back on track, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll.

It’s a sharp rise from 18 months ago, when 19% of Americans said the same.

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      Right? Supply side christofascism? A final coup d’etat? Splitting the country? Even the democrats are more than a little sus with their corporate allegiance, so exactly who is going to be the preferable leadership?

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      Half the country wants to take the express route to fascism. I don’t know if we can even fix things at this point.

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          No, I think the violence is a symptom, and that political violence is happening and we have to stop pretending it’s not. This is the state we’re in, no amount of crackdowns or “turning down the temperature” is going to change things

          If you look at the cause, it’s obvious there’s just going to be more and more violence. That’s what happens when you make people desperate, and people are getting more and more desperate

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          Actually, yes.

          The ruling class has such a stranglehold on power, the only way to take it away from them is to take it back by force.

          They will never give up willingly and have more than enough resources to make sure people like you are complacent in their abuse.

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      That is right. “Which track” is always the needed followup question.

      Edit: Oh, actually great quote from article.

      The belief that violence may be the answer has grown among Republicans and independents – up 3 and 7 percentage points, respectively, since April last year. But the largest increase has been among Democrats. Now 28% of Democrats share that view, up 16 points.