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1 in 4 Americans Now Say ‘Patriots May Have to Resort to Violence to Save the Country’
The National Pulse ^ | 10/26/2023 | JACK MONTGOMERY

Posted on 10/31/2023 7:45:41 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

There has been a major increase in the number of Americans who agree that “Because things haven gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country” – with a sharper rise among Democrats and Independents than Republicans.

While only 15 percent of Americans agreed political violence may be necessary in 2021, the figure has risen to 23 percent as of 2023.

This sentiment is highest among Republicans, having risen from 28 percent to 33 percent, but the rise has been more significant among Democrats, almost doubling from seven percent to 13 percent. Independents have also seen a sharper rise, from 13 percent to 22 percent.

Similar changes can be observed when examining Americans’ religious and ethnic backgrounds. The feeling that political violence may be necessary is greatest among white evangelicals and mainline Protestants, having risen from 24 and 18 percent to 31 and 25 percent, respectively – but there has been a more pronounced rise among black Protestants, from 12 percent to 24 percent.

Hispanic Catholics are actually slightly more likely to believe political violence is necessary than white Catholics, at 21 percent versus 20 percent (up from 17 and 16 percent in 2021.)

People who describe themselves are religiously unaffiliated or religious but non-Christian have also seen steep rises, from 12 percent to 23 percent and from nine percent to 23 percent.

People in these groups were not broken down by ethnicity or by particular religions such as Islam, however.


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1 posted on 10/31/2023 7:45:41 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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Count me in as being one out of the four. These criminals in DC ain’t going down without a fight. They’ve already shown they are willing to steal elections.


2 posted on 10/31/2023 7:49:49 AM PDT by jimwatx
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To: SoConPubbie

How do you save a country filled with those that see no need to be saved?


3 posted on 10/31/2023 7:50:46 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Only 1 in 4? Someone’s lying.


4 posted on 10/31/2023 7:51:37 AM PDT by Wdempsey (Democrats and slinkys.. Both useless but fun to push down stairs.)
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To: brownsfan

Secession, or as I call it, cutting the tumors off…

Leave the cancerous parasites to drown in their shit.


5 posted on 10/31/2023 7:52:25 AM PDT by SPDSHDW (FR is so far in the can that we make the DU idiots look civil sometimes. Hope you’re proud.)
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To: SoConPubbie

NOT GOOD


6 posted on 10/31/2023 7:52:43 AM PDT by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: SoConPubbie
Where would they go?

Who would they fight?

Only Marxist revolutionaries engage in random violence expecting change in governance.

7 posted on 10/31/2023 7:52:52 AM PDT by G Larry (It is RACIST to impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants by importing Cheap ILLEGAL Labor!)
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To: Wdempsey

IKR !


8 posted on 10/31/2023 7:52:58 AM PDT by bantam
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To: SoConPubbie

The problem - no one agrees what the target of that violence should be, so it will, of course, be random and chaotic.


9 posted on 10/31/2023 7:53:48 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: SPDSHDW

“Secession, or as I call it, cutting the tumors off…

Leave the cancerous parasites to drown in their shit.”

That’s fine, but that’s not “saving the country”. It’s saving those that wish to be saved. The split won’t be easy.


10 posted on 10/31/2023 7:54:04 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: SoConPubbie
Too late. The liberals got around to using violence long before the Americans ever dared thinking it.


11 posted on 10/31/2023 7:55:32 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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The American Troubles are well on their way. It will consist of many factions and made strange and fluid alliances.


12 posted on 10/31/2023 7:57:25 AM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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*many strange and fluid alliances.


13 posted on 10/31/2023 7:57:59 AM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: SoConPubbie

That’s 25% - similar to the 30% of Colonists that supported the “original” Revolution.


14 posted on 10/31/2023 7:58:28 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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Its coming...


15 posted on 10/31/2023 8:01:53 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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Well, that is the purpose of the 2nd amendment. In fact, the Declaration says we have an obligation (to descendents) to destroy tyranny.

Target? Ooh. Start local. How about the DB’s who support grooming in schools? Their behavior is an attack upon the roots of humanity. The purpose of life, itself.


16 posted on 10/31/2023 8:02:01 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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could be a pretext to strip gun rights from Americans so they “don’t hurt each other”. of course it helps an overarching Marxist government keep control of the masses. their perfect scenario is only criminals and government have guns. one entity together.


17 posted on 10/31/2023 8:05:03 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: SoConPubbie

In other words, the Progressive Left is looking to unleash their inner Trotsky on the American Normal Majority.


18 posted on 10/31/2023 8:05:08 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: jimwatx
These criminals in DC ain’t going down without a fight.

They started the fire. Now it's our duty to put it out. The tree of liberty is begging for water.

This will be the tipping point for CWII.

19 posted on 10/31/2023 8:08:42 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: SoConPubbie
Mr. Spock : Lieutenant, I am half-Vulcanian. Vulcanians do not speculate. I speak from pure logic. If I let go of a hammer on a planet that has a positive gravity, I need not see it fall to know that it has in fact fallen.

Given society's predisposed answer to everything is to kill, this sounds logical. However, hopefully it can be avoided.

20 posted on 10/31/2023 8:10:46 AM PDT by Dubh_Ghlase (Wake up! The Philistines are upon you!)
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