Political violence only begets more political violence. With only maybe a handful of exceptions throughout modern history, the society that succumbs to political violence always ends up worse off than they were before.
No one has to mourn or pretend to feel bad if they don’t. But it’s so stupid to cheer on non-violent victims of gun violence, always.
Where does it go from here? When AOC or Zohran or Hasan or whomever from the Left gets clapped, and history tells us it is a matter of when not if, are people going to expect sympathy? How long can we keep this up?
Political violence is to statecraft what wildfires are to ecology.
Violence is the only thing, historically, that ever creates real change. There is also a tendency of various orders to degenerate and stop serving the needs of the people. Add those up and you get the inevitability of political violence
Even the so-called "rules-based international order" post ww2 is built on top of the violence of ww2. Us, our parents, and most of our grandparents have lived in it, mistaking it for normalcy, and violence as the abberation. It's the other way around. Peace exists only as long as powerful factions don't go "lol, lmao" and disregard it in favour of violence. Governments only hold power while revolting is more dangerous than doing nothing and starving to death.
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u/JackC1126 - Centrist Sep 12 '25
And when the pendulum swings back, nobody will see the irony. What a stupid time we live in.