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Americans Increasingly Believe Violence is Justified if the Other Side Wins
Politico ^ | October 1st, 2020 | By LARRY DIAMOND, LEE DRUTMAN, TOD LINDBERG, NATHAN P. KALMOE and LILLIANA MASON

Posted on 10/01/2020 9:13:35 PM PDT by Mariner

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To: Mariner

I believe it either way because we will have to fight back or die.


41 posted on 10/01/2020 10:13:22 PM PDT by webheart (Coronavirus, I give up. Come get me.)
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To: Mariner

No. THEY are the ones who thinks violence is justified if we win. We on the other hand, expect they will attack us if they lose, OR if they win, we expect they will launch a communist regime on us.
Eventually we know we will have to defend ourselves from them. But nobody on our side is going to launch violence simply because hey win. But they will.


42 posted on 10/01/2020 10:25:53 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: kiryandil

McClellan was the Bill Barr of his day. All talk and no action.


43 posted on 10/01/2020 10:27:22 PM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: Truthoverpower

No ill will? yeah sport, we can see that... in Portland, Atlanta, New York, DC, Seattle, Los Angeles, Denver, St. Louis, Houston, Dallas, on every social media platform, in the workplace, on airliners, on the sidewalk, etc etc etc...


44 posted on 10/01/2020 10:29:23 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: DoodleBob

“establish an independent, bipartisan third force—a broad commission of distinguished leaders and democratic elders of both parties and of civil society.”

And we will see this about 3 or 4 days after the election when Bush, Obama, Clinton and Carter all meet somewhere to insist Trump concede and stand down. And they will suggest a “truth commission” to reveal Trump’s “crimes”. It will be modeled after the one in Argentina, South Africa, etc.

Just watch.


45 posted on 10/01/2020 10:35:48 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: CatOwner

No doubt, and the PMS/DSA Leftist will unleash more violence on America.
If the government won’t contain the BLM and Antifa the people will. Either way We the People of America are in for a wild ride.


46 posted on 10/01/2020 10:45:50 PM PDT by Doc91678 (Doc91678)
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To: MinorityRepublican

If Trump wins in a landslide, they will just keep “finding” ballots in trunks of cars until Biden wins. They’ve already done that in Senate races.


47 posted on 10/02/2020 12:46:35 AM PDT by chuckles
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To: Mariner
This polling smells fishy. Where did they take it? Like the Democrat burnt out, hollowed out cities? Yeah, then the poll would make sense.

Also, Democrats are more likely to respond to telephone polling because they are not likely to be beat up by Antifa.

So the poll IMHO is skewed.

48 posted on 10/02/2020 1:55:19 AM PDT by CptnObvious (Question her now.)
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To: DoodleBob

so, the good news is, in cities that are rioting, the 26% ‘very liberal’ Dems have already self identified either through recent arrest mug shots or their propensity for black fashion statements. And the 16% of ‘very conservative’ Reps haven’t.


49 posted on 10/02/2020 2:48:09 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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To: bicyclerepair

Trump said he doesn’t know who the PBs are. I don’t know who the PBs are. I only know that PBs live in the heads of the Portland antifa and make them crazy super paranoid which is not a bad thing. But 99% of America doesn’t know who PBs are, either. They’re all going, whaaa? who??? Are they like, Occupy??? Trump’s going on being told, by Biden throwing out the name (which is who PBs should be mad at - how the hell did he hear about PBs?) and Wallace lapping it up, and the press dogs repeating it, that the PBs are a ‘white supremist’ group. Putting Trump on the spot, for the 100th time, to ‘condemn’ all racist groups.

If PBs aren’t a racist, white supremist group and they’re just into flag waving and knocking heads together some days and helping little old ladies cross the street on others, and can handle the scrutiny of being elevated to a national level, now would be a good time to do some interviews. Hearts and minds and all that. Like I said, 99% of America has no freaking clue who the PBs are or what they do or stand for.


50 posted on 10/02/2020 3:10:32 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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To: Mariner

Violence is happening now from the left.


51 posted on 10/02/2020 3:47:05 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Truthoverpower

They rioted in dozens of towns and cities, for days, some places for weeks or months. How does that compart with what you said?


52 posted on 10/02/2020 4:08:19 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: HighSierra5

Senate hold is more likely than Trump win so rat Senate/Trump reelected is a very unlikely combination and would require several states to split tickets, ousting GOP incumbents but still going for Trump. No states split tickets in 2016.


53 posted on 10/02/2020 4:32:20 AM PDT by Impy (Thug Lives Splatter - China delenda est)
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To: Mariner

“This will look like the Spanish Civil War.”

Yes. And maybe even like the Balkans break-up.


54 posted on 10/02/2020 5:46:33 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: jmacusa

“McClellan was the Bill Barr of his day. All talk and no action.”

So was Hooker. As was Bragg on the CSA side.


55 posted on 10/02/2020 5:51:01 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: webheart

Here are some profound words from Winston Churchill:

“If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” — Winston Churchill


56 posted on 10/02/2020 5:52:30 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: kiryandil

LOL!


57 posted on 10/02/2020 5:53:45 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Mariner

What a stupid, POS poll.
Absolutely meaningless and so vague could be interpreted any way you want to show it.
The sole purpose of Politico - divide, divide, divide...


58 posted on 10/02/2020 6:06:18 AM PDT by No_More_Harkin
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To: Truthoverpower

Thank you. Great level headed post, sorely needed.
Politico, et al. just seem to want to continue to sew division, like a little child screaming “PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!”.


59 posted on 10/02/2020 6:08:27 AM PDT by No_More_Harkin
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To: Mariner
We are a hair breath from civil war. A convincing Trump win will lessen the severity, but the left will use Trump’s re-election as an excuse to riot, burn and loot. The American people will not tolerate more cities becoming Portland and will demand action which a Trump will deliver.

A Biden win will immediately start a huge sell off on Wall Street and a run on guns and ammunition. I expect a huge push back if not open rebellion if Biden makes good on his promises of a national mask mandate, gun bans and implementation of the Green New Deal. Biden will be at best a figurehead and I would expect before the end of his term Harris will become POTUS.

The worst case scenario is an election in limbo with endless challenges of votes, appeals to the Supreme Court and the specter ofNancy Pelosi call the shots on a House decided election or herself becoming a de facto President. In this case I expect a violent civil war.

60 posted on 10/02/2020 8:43:47 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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