1 in 5 Americans think violence may solve U.S. divisions, poll finds

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1 in 5 Americans think violence may solve U.S. divisions, poll finds
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To be fair, the question was "do you think violence is necessary for the US to get back on track"

Make America Great Again is the Republican line, so of course the poll is going to lean this way.

It's built into the slogan. "The grass is always greener" doesn't have the same ring to it.

Congrats. That's probably the dumbest attempt to grasp at straws I've seen all day.

I'm looking at what the polling question actually is. Liberals, kinda by definition, don't want the country to "get back on track" or return to a period of former greatness.

I would agree we're pretty far off the track. Remember when the biggest scandals were presidential blowies and tan suits?

How about Watergate? There have always been scandals.

Or on another note, how about when presidential blowies were a scandal, gay people couldn't even get married? The appeal to an idealized past is a conservative thing.

I'm not saying turn back the clock, I just want politics to stop being so... I mean marjorie taylor greene exists, for fucks sake.

Also let's be real, Watergate is tame in 2024. Hell, PRISM wasn't even as big as Watergate and it was 100x worse.

The liberals I know think it’s pretty off track. Specifically, it fell off the rails when Trump got elected.

The track switch probably was thrown back in the 2000 election. We all hoped President Obama was gonna get us back on track.

MAGA wants to revert the us to some racist 1950s version. Violence is basically required to achieve that vision.

Liberals want to put the US back on track to equality, human rights and a secure future (see SCOTUS, for example of how off track the US is). We just don’t think violence is a good way to do take.

I guess I wasn't thinking about it that way, that "on track" could be that Democrats are imagining there was a time when liberal ideals were being actively worked towards. I don't think that's really true, but I now see that someone could think that way.

So, are you a foreign operative, fascist or tankie?

There's no way educated native English speakers could be as far off in either reading comprehension, or understanding of US politics, as you are.

Half these comments read like the Reddit PsyOps campaigns of 2016, and the vote counts indicate the same.

lmao you're the one who doesn't understand how language is used to manipulate polling and headlines

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