Nearly a third of Americans – 30% – say people may have to resort to violence in order to get the country back on track, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll.

It’s a sharp rise from 18 months ago, when 19% of Americans said the same.

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    7 hours ago

    Your point is valid.

    It probably looks like a dystopian novel surveillance state, with drones watching you every time you leave your house (or not). All internet and phone communication would be monitored. And anyone caught saying things the government doesn’t like would suffer consequences.

    With individual events prompting it and happening occasionally regardless of the surveillance state.

    It’d look a lot more like the Irish than the Civil War. It’d be a country of everyone living in fear.

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      7 hours ago

      Sadly, the best defense we have is the fact that Trump is an idiot surrounded by dolts.

      A competent leader would have locked everything down years ago.

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        6 hours ago

        A competent leader would have realized that the country is in a pretty good spot, he’s in a pretty good spot. They’d focus on helping the American people and improving the world and the country.

        They wouldn’t be Hitler with more grift.

        It takes a special amount of dumb to do the damage they’ve done. With their goals, they can’t, by definition, be competent.

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          6 hours ago

          I’ve been saying this since 2016.

          All Trump had to do was call the Saudis on Inauguration Day and tell them that they were going to put $50 billion in his bank account.

          Then he could have sat back and done nothing.

          I’m a life long New Yorker, and I’ve seen Trump’s dumb for decades. Besides bankrupting casinos, he lost about a billion trying to buy the Plaza Hotel.