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Political violence is acceptable.
That is the social contract as practiced, not as advertised.
It's dressed up in votes and filings, but every statute rides on threats, every order ends with men who can cage you, seize your money, or kill you if you resist far enough.
That is why people panic when their rivals win. On some level they know power means the power to force, so they feel endangered by the other side’s victory.
The outrage is real, the story is fake. Politics is sold as civility. In practice it is anything but.
“Do not kill over politics,” they say, yet in the next breath they celebrate policies that lock strangers in cells for plants, taxes, and speech.
If your neighbor dragged you out of your house and into their basement for working without the proper permission slip, you would cut ties or fight back. When he votes for someone else to do it, you are told to be civil.
The act is the same, only outsourced. Society has normalized violence by proxy and then people pretend to be shocked when violence breaks costume.
This is why appeals to unity ring hollow. People are told to keep relationships intact across political lines while those lines decide what their bodies, money, and children can be used for without consent.
You can feel the dishonesty in your gut. If someone backs a system that will punish you for peaceful choices, it feels wrong to simply treat that as a harmless preference.
Reality is, most people are fine with force when their side holds the baton, they call it barbaric when the other side swings it.
They should just admit they prefer using the state to make others obey and stop pretending ballots are pacifist.
Only then are we dealing with reality.
