2/The assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy in the 60s undoubtedly destabilized American politics and society.
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13/I feel like this is how Cold Civil Wars are fought. Extremists rile everyone up, hoping that a lone nutjob will take the hint and go wreak some havoc. Lone wolf proxy wars.
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14/Each act of political or possibly-political violence stirs the other side to greater hysteria. That hysteria percolates into the minds of unstable individuals watching through their computer screens. Eventually enough hysteria prompts them to grab a gun or bomb and attack.
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15/Thus, the cycle of assassination/terrorism and hysteria continues until...what? How do Cold Civil Wars end? (end)
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FWIW, stress definitely increased between 2016 and 2017. But based on Gallup microdata the proportion of people experiencing stress rose by less than 2 percentage pointspic.twitter.com/fFLZJqG4a5
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Big jump from 2012 to 2013. Whoa. Why?
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It seems fairly flat between 2011 and 2016, no?
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Escalation may require, inter alia, "useful idiots". Will be interesting if someone keeps an eye on how the narrative develops!
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