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Originally Posted by Pierre
Oh wow, they’ve condemned it.
Yet, for eight years they have said Trump, and Trump supporters, are Nazis, authoritarians, going to subjugate you, imprison you, take away your rights, your freedoms, they’re evil. You have no future.
And we’re supposed to be surprised when some one kills a Trump supporter, when they’ve been told all of the above?
This was inevitable. Kids have been orphaned because of it.
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And Republicans have said the Democrats are communists, stealing elections, baby killers, will take away gun rights and are the enemies from within.
I agree that American politics uses inflammatory language a lot, and they need to tone it down. I agree with you that this can lead to violence - albeit indirectly in most cases - but let's not pretend this is limited to one side of the political aisle.
In June, a Democratic politician called Melissa Hortman, was killed.
I think a lot of people need to think about the tone in which they conduct politics and have disagreements, but the people most to blame for political violence in a democracy are those who resort to it.
And beyond that, it's also a country that's become so numb to violence that stories like this:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-r...y?id=125452526 are just another day.