The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented.
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We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.
Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.
The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.
The most important point is, in a time of crisis, there is no way out but for the government to be bold and aggressive.
First of all we have to recognize that despite all the problems - and in some cases failures - that this regime has been much more successful, much more resilient, than people had anticipated.
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.
As long as anger, paranoia and misinformation drive our political debate, there are unhinged souls among us who will feel justified in turning to violent remedies for imagined threats.
You see in times of crisis that extremist forces, populist forces, have a better ground to oversimplify things and to manipulate feelings. Feelings of fear.
At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent.
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