Mississippi. Continued lynchings, children bombed in church. Chicago police riot of 1968. Kent State shooting. I can go on. I lived it. In Vietnam and at home.

They were very violent when protesters clashed with police.

"2,500 domestic bombings in just 18 months in 1971 and 1972" https://www.thenation.com/article/remembering-left-wing-terrorism-1970s/

"1969, a Year of Bombings" https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/1969-a-year-of-bombings/

the spitting on Vietnam Vets.

could happen again.

ETA.. I just meant the Protests should have happened.. not the killing.

kidnappings, etc., even now many protests become extremely violent with property damage and some are tracking our political opponents and office holders to where they live, where their children go to school, where the family eats, shops, assassinations of major office holders have been attempted, things could start getting ugly.

dealing with fascist scum...and are in the fight or our lives.

Roman Ducksworth Jr, Paul Guihard, William Lewis Moore, Medgar Evers, Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, Virgil Lamar Ware, Louis Allen, Johnnie Mae Chappell, Rev. Bruce Klunder, Henry Hezekiah Dee, Charles Eddie Moore, James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Henry Schwerner, Lemuel Penn, Jimmie Lee Jackson, James Reeb, Viola Gregg Liuzzo, Oneal Moore, Willie Brewster, Jonathan Myrick Daniels, Samuel Leamon Younge Jr, Vernon Ferdinand Dahmer, Ben Chester White, Clarence Triggs, Wharlest Jackson, Benjamin Brown, Samuel Ephesians Hammond Jr., Delano Herman Middleton, and Henry Ezekial Smith might want to tell us about how civil the discussions of Civil Rights were here in the US

Civil rights martyrs
https://www.splcenter.org/what-we-do/civil-rights-memorial/civil-rights-martyrs

People got murdered, shot at Kent State, assassinated. A cell of the Weather Underground accidentally blew themselves and a townhouse to bloody gobbets and smithereens in a bomb-making lab.

Civil Rights protesters, who practiced passive resistance and civil disobedience as taught by Mahatma Ghandi were attacked by police dogs, mowed down by fire hoses, had pots of hot coffee poured on them, were lynched, were taken from Freedom Rider busses and buried in a remote area, spat upon, screamed at...

Newt Gingrich exhorted the entire Republican Party to treat Democrats that way, to take every opportunity to instill hate and loathing for half the nation.

That was a quarter century ago. If you'd been handwringing this much for all that time you would have worn your hands down to the elbows.

we had a few of our leaders assassinated, if I recall.

Kind of impolite, it might have been nice to hear what they had to say ‘bout stuff.

Gergen needs to change gigs.