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2 days agoNon violence in such human interaction is a fabricated idea.
Violence is not only a punch is the face or a bullet in the neck. Violence can be political, institutional, verbal, administrative, monetary… all of which, used tremendously by the far right in the past and nowadays (it’s their prime language) with very real, dramatic consequences.
Non violence as a an answer is a myth put in your head. It was put there through violent means, and by violent people. Violent people who want to keep you afraid and docile.
Even « non violent » revolutions such as India’s understood very well balance of power and how to exert violence through other means than direct, physical violence.
Non violence in such balance of power does not exist.
Didn’t the media and far right call democrats « rats » in the wake of those events? Saying they would come for « them »? (Who?)
To your initial question, political violence under all forms is extreme in the us right now, and it’s only the logical continuity of all the previous events. Including, to answer your first question, the murder of two democrat representatives less than two months ago.
Let’s not forget the soldiers in the streets, nor the pizza deliveries to democrats houses to scare them, nor the ice raids… nazis reap what they sow.