2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Ticked off millennials are taking on the Democrats [View all]thucythucy
(8,050 posts)And maybe you didn't intend for your post to sound as off-putting as I found it.
Up thread I talk about Carter vs. Reagan, Gore vs. Bush II--how my more lefty friends argued then that electing a Republican then would make no difference in the long haul. I'd say in both instances that notion was wildly, disastrously mistaken. Perhaps an even better example--though slightly before my time--was Humphrey vs. Nixon. Humphrey was seen as a war monger kiss-ass to LBJ, and if Nixon wins who cares?
In retrospect, it's clear to me anyway, from my own idiosyncratic reading of history, that Nixon's election was a disaster of the first magnitude.
Anyway, to get back to your point, I don't think violence of any form will help at all, so I'm hoping it doesn't come to that.
Best wishes.