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If this doesn't affect, in general, safety, it would be just a philosophical war.

I'm pretty sure that political violence affects safety.

There’s a growing number of Americans who think violence might be necessary to get the country back on track
Politics
Oct 1, 2025 5:00 AM EDT

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.

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.

It comes on the heels of recent high-profile acts of political violence in the United States, marked by the assasination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah last month, the murder of a Democratic state legislator and her husband in Minnesota in June, a Molotov cocktail thrown into the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion in April and two assassination attempts on Donald Trump last summer when he was running for reelection.

“It’s a horrific moment to see that people honestly believe that there’s no other alternative at this point than to resort to political
violence.”

At the same time, the number of Americans who believe the country is moving in the wrong direction has grown since Trump returned to the Oval Office. In the latest poll, 62% said the country is headed off track, up 8 points since March. That includes 68% of independents.

Thirty-eight percent believe the country is headed in the right direction, the poll found.

“We’ve had an erosion in a lot of norms and rules, and in our institutions” that has accelerated in the last year, said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist University Institute for Public Opinion. “The cloud over all this remains the excessive polarization on a lot of issues. So the country is more divided. Our temperature is now well above normal. We’re breaking a pretty high fever right now.”

The rising support for violence is particularly alarming to Cynthia Miller-Idriss, a professor at American University and founding director of PERIL, the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab. She said the latest poll findings “should be a real wake-up call.”

“It’s a horrific moment to see that people honestly believe that there’s no other alternative at this point than to resort to political violence,” Miller-Idriss said. “One of the things you really want to see right now is universal condemnation of the use of violence and de-escalation of rhetoric.”

Despite the heated political climate, or perhaps because of it, the vast majority of Americans believe politically motivated violence is a major problem.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/theres-a-growing-number-of-americans-who-think-violence-might-be-necessary-to-get-the-country-back-on-track

As long these governments don't send their young citizens to wars under the pretext to protect the freedom and democracy of their countries, I can't figure out what wrong they may do.
 

When governments abandon and attack and wage war against logic, reason and truth then societies crumble.

I wish I could be optimistic about the USA.  The government  seems to me to be going crazy. 

I wish I could be optimistic about the USA too. The people in Canada, UK, Australia, etc. are also saying they wish they could be optimistic about their governments. It seems that the same playbook is being used in all these countries.

After all, it is good to be optimist 

I wish I could be optimistic about the USA.  The government  seems to me to be going crazy. 

I believe in free speech but not the celebrating and glorifying the death of people and calling for the death of people.

Well, theists, in general, are supposed to believe that their God is always ready to give them the means and power to get rid (even by killing) the enemies of their God.
This could be seen clearly among Jews and Muslims. So, it is natural, also in these days, to see people celebrating their victories over so-called enemies of Moses' God and Mohammad's God, for example.

On my side, my enemies and evil people are created to give me the chance of feeding my living soul thru the Spirit of Love (the Holy Spirit) and be, therefore, above the material/physical world which is automated by the natural human's instincts (that is to be no more of this world).