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*Political violence is quintessentially American Conservatism
A lot of that historical violence has been directed at minorities, social groups, marginalized groups, Indigenous people, LGBTQ+, union workers, blacks, Hispanics, women
If you want to narrow it all down ... most of the American political violence, the majority of it over the past 200 years was driven by white Christian males who believe they are a ruling class and need to be on top overpowering everyone else for their own personal benefit .... usually with the lame excuse that it is God's will. And I honestly also don't believe it has anything to do with God or Christianity or even religion ... it's just a small entitled group of people who just want all the power, all the money and all the control ... you know the same jungle mentality of that one male monkey who wants all the bananas and all the females and be able to pound their chest and make everyone scared.
I'm Indigenous Canadian and this does not mean I want to jump over the political cliff and call for the end of all white Christian males ... I'm just pointing out the history ... and what I believe is that we can all coexist together without any one group dominating over another and everyone just living together equally - socially and economically.
🙄 good Lord...no.