1/Between this wave of mail bombings and the 2017 Congressional baseball shooting, I'm starting to worry that the U.S. is entering a new era of politically motivated assassinations.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/24/nyregion/clinton-obama-explosive-device.html …
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Not comparable to the two eras you mentioned (20s and 60s) I would see a possible increase in violence but unlikely youll get mass political violence from domestic extremists(theyre not competent enough, even the IRA was operationally shut down by the 90s in the UK, and they 1/
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Were the late 60s and 70s "OK"? The country didn't fall apart.
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The 60s ad 70s were far more violent than now. They were okay relevant to more violent counterfactuals.
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Lead poisoning, alcohol, and institutional racism turn out not to be a great mix.
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Indeed. (And the boomers coming of age, another thing we dont have is a large cohort of young men coming through)
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Millennials are a Baby Boom echo...
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