The Water Cooler – Are We Witnessing A New Normal Where Assassanitions/Assassination Atttempts Against Political Figures Just Come With The Territory?

I refuse to accept this as normal. It doesn’t matter who you vote for or how you live your life. None of that excuses assassinations, attempts, or violence against someone because you disagree with them. Saying it “just comes with the territory” is downplaying (or in some cases flat out encouraging) that kind of behavior. It’s a sad reality but that doesn’t mean you have to accept it when it’s wrong.

It certainly looks like it now days – including assassination hoaxes to gain popular support unfortunately

All it takes is one blue looniecrat who thinks he, she (or it), knows better than millions of American voters, to cancel all our votes out with a single bullet.

Nothing is normal about that & it never will be.

What you are calling political violence is the very tip of the iceberg.

The real question is whether or not violent revolt is the only recourse left for the proletariat. History says it is. The ruling class never relinquishes power by choice. We’re not talking about Team Red vs. Team Blue, we’re talking about working people cheering for Luigi Mangioni; about recent attempts on Altman’s life met with “did they get him this time?”; about videos of warehouses and data centers going up in flames going viral online with the overwhelming majority of comments praising the destruction.

More Americans are waking up to class consciousness and no longer falling for pretending either party gives rat’s a$$ about you or me. When you understand society through the lens of the ownership class and those who sustain it, you see just how incredibly foolish it is to buy into the distractions, let alone cheerlead these charlatans and their theatre.

For generations, democractic attempts to correct this were repeatedly undermined, protesting is routinely scoffed at (and sometimes illegal), and the wealth gap continues to grow, now exponentially. So what’s left? How do things really change? We don’t have to condone violence to understand that it is inevitable when the alternative paths to necessary change have been exhausted or proven fruitless.

This might look to some like it’s the violent side of the socialist mindset, and to some degree that’s fair, as it is exactly what Marx said will inevitably happen to every capitalist society as the system is inherently unsustainable. That theory has proven correct throughout history. America was supposed to be the exception to the rule; an experiment to attempt to prove the middle class can thrive in a newer, then-modern form of regulated capitalism with social guardrails. Once those safety nets were demonized as “socialism,” which it low-key was, and politicized as a threat to American values, our society began to move away from regulated capitalism in preference to the good ‘ol “free market”. The middle class took the hit, poverty grew, and the billionaire class got richer and richer. The left and right blame each other for the rise in homelessness, endless inflation, the decline of the American dollar, failing school systems, the housing crisis, and the fact that higher education is out of reach for most college-aged kids today. Eventually, it becomes clear, that it’s not your neighbor trying to steal your loot, and that you should be on the same side of the frontline, against those who are very successfully working against you both and going mostly unchallenged.

This is what late stage capitalism looks like.