(07-09-2023, 01:12 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: Nut jobs acting violently due to ill advised messaging from politicians is nothing new. I know that. 

What does appear to be new is the higher number of nut jobs the digital age has spawned, and the relative ease with which they are able to find their would be targets while armed to the teeth. 

We've heard of multiple arrests happening in the wake of Trump's election loss and numerous nut jobs detained at various sites who were clearly responding to conspiracies being floated by Trump and his supporters. 

We've seen dozens of Latin X persons murdered in mass shootings with the killers ranting to anyone who will listen the exact same rhetoric about an immigrant invasion that we hear from Trump and Tucker Carlson. 

Here is just one example of many varied and troubling cases. 
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/05...s-00104715

Personally, I think it is just a matter of time before one of these wackos or one of these militia groups hit a sensitive or prominent target. Which could set off cataclysmic repercussions. 

And, yes, of course this stuff happens from sympathizers supporting both sides of the aisle. The current climate just happens to have if more focused and prevalent from the right wing. I'm sure there are relevant examples of extremists from the left doing all kinds of evil, but the current climate is lopsided the other way. The point being made is that our society and media are not being responsible about the spread of hateful propaganda and it is going to end up fueling more and more violence. 

The civil war talk is also just getting louder and louder, and more and more normalized. There are enough wackos out there building arsenals that this rhetoric will equate to violence soon enough. 

I wish we didn't normalize the hate like we do. It's dangerous, and I see us very near a tipping point.