Wow. Those numbers are way too high, across the board.
Destruction of property is acceptable if you are protesting something unjust? What does that even mean?
You don’t like the war in Ukraine, so you are justified in torching Teslas?
Society changes all the time. You don’t like people smoking marijuana, so it is ok to assassinate insurance executives?
Well, I don’t exactly like insurance executives but killing them is a little harsh I think. Maybe just smacking them around a bit? I’d never torch a Tesla. That’s ridiculous. Stealing it and selling it makes more sense, right? Just kidding.
Young people across the board tilt their heads and look quizzically at someone who says: The ends don’t justify the means.
By contrast, and troublingly, they will tend to vibe with people who say: By any means necessary.
FWIW, the cohort among self-professed conservatives whose hearts are warmed at the prospect of ideologically-directed violence are probably largely young and recently converted from one or another form of liberalism/progressivism, even socialism/Marxism/communism.
Hopefully, with time, and enough time-in-rank as conservatives, their thirst for wanton, mindless violence will naturally wane.
It’s disturbing that so many *conservatives* agree with that.
Liberals, I expect it out of. Moderates, well they are partially liberal so it doesn’t surprise me.