‘Americans accept violence against regime in some cases’

WASHINGTON DC (Agencies): More and more Americans consider violence against the country’s administration to be justified in some cases, reports the Washington Post(switch to another service) and a recent online survey by the University of Maryland.
According to the survey, one in three respondents thought that there were situations in which there was a need to resort to violence.
The world we live in is scary. I don’t want to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but sometimes this feels like a movie. It is no longer a war against Democrats and Republicans, but a struggle between good and evil, explained Republican Anthea Ward, 32, of Michigan.
Ward, who is a mother of two, said she feared the administration of President Joe Biden would force them to take the corona vaccine.
As late as the 1990s, nearly 90 percent of Americans believed that violence against the regime was never acceptable. Now, the online survey for accepting violence was the highest in more than twenty years.
Party strain and skin color were affected
Violence was more often accepted by men, young adults, and the educated. Attitudes towards violence were also divided by skin color: 40 per cent of white respondents considered violence to be justified in some cases, while only 18 per cent of blacks thought so.
The party base also influenced the answers. About 40 percent of Republicans and non-aligned people sometimes accepted violence, while only 23 percent of Democrats thought so.
Among the legitimate causes of violence, the respondents felt tyranny, corruption and fear of losing their own rights.
“Until a few years ago, I would have replied that such conditions would not be possible and that violence would never be appropriate,” said Phil Spampinato , 73, of Delaware.
According to Spampinato, his attitude to violence changed after Republicans began to change state election laws after Donald Trump’s election defeat.
Trump supporters took over the convention building in Washington less than a year ago as Epiphany.