My mistake, I thought you were advocating political violence in your original comment (like many others in this thread are). Didn’t mean to strawman you. Thought you were voicing agreement with all those other comments.
Thanks for the civil response. I can see how you came to that conclusion and to be clear I think violence can become necessary in order to defend a free and fair society but I don’t believe that it should be common or expected by default.
Democracy has its problems and my critiques of it come from an egalitarian “left” perspective rather than the might-oriented perspective others espouse here.
The only point I meant to make is that American democracy isn’t fair and even its ideal state leaves some people at the margins. In that system violence will always have a place.
My mistake, I thought you were advocating political violence in your original comment (like many others in this thread are). Didn’t mean to strawman you. Thought you were voicing agreement with all those other comments.
Thanks for the civil response. I can see how you came to that conclusion and to be clear I think violence can become necessary in order to defend a free and fair society but I don’t believe that it should be common or expected by default.
Democracy has its problems and my critiques of it come from an egalitarian “left” perspective rather than the might-oriented perspective others espouse here.
The only point I meant to make is that American democracy isn’t fair and even its ideal state leaves some people at the margins. In that system violence will always have a place.
Oh absolutely. I think there may come a point within the next decade where violence is inevitable. But IMO they aren’t there yet.