there is a mythos about like when we founded the country we broke with the old ways of Europe that were like blood soaked

right we created the rule of law and God the revered constitution where we banished all of that stuff and we and it's like bullshit like that moment is just that's just mafia war

lord is in a committee of congress for sure there is this level of violence you're absolutely right that there's a pretty shiny

narrative of early america that goes on for quite some time in the way we understand the past and there wasn't a shiny moment

hello and welcome to wise is happening with me your host christmas it's some it's weird to talk about this now because

whenever you're listening to this it's going to feel like an ancient memory but two weeks before the midterms a very

obsessive trump fan magahead with a van plastered with custom made decals about trump and trump's enemies and the deep state and all of that stuff

uh that he drove around southward of that individual I think his name was sazar sayok sent hype bombs to like 13 plus people that he viewed as political enemies of the president from Joe Biden

to john Brennan care of cnn to the former president of the united states brocco balla michelle obama to the former secretary of state and

Donald trump's opponent hillary clinton to george soros like he tried to

blow up kill murder 12 to 13 of the most prominent members of the political opposition to the current president because he loves the president so much

we were really lucky that he didn't build very good pipe bombs as far as we can tell like they were none of them went off

it turns out actually building a device like that and actually delivering it and having go off take some real technical know how and luckily he lacked it so we didn't end up with people being

killed or mangled thank god of course there's mail carriers who had to handle it and there's staff at all these places that have to screen it

but think about what it would have meant if this was successful like think for a second about what America would have been like if

Barack Obama hillary clinton joe Biden George soros tom styer and others had all been assassinated by bombs two weeks before the election madness chaos grief tragedy conflict a sense of unwinding

a sense that the country was in crisis in a way that would feel like order was slipping away

there's something specific about what political violence does to a society and people sense of stability in order political violence chips away at our sense of order and stability it destroys the fabric of shared civic life

it pulls us back from the light of peaceable resolution of conflict and difference towards the darkness of war of all against all that's the place that we all came from all of us humans violence and strength were the original means of resolving dispute

you took my land no i didn't

okay well who who wins that who's stronger who's got the bigger club who's got the bigger crew to administer the beat down who's got the bigger gun this land is my land say these settlers

no it's not well we have the guns so it's ours that's the way that human relations have worked for most of the time human beings have been on the planet

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