My guess is that serious politically-motivated violence will remain rare enough that you don’t actually need to worry about it
That’s the hope, right? We are living in a civilized society, etc. etc. There is not going to be a repeat of The Troubles, will there? No empire will collapse with a big bang, no mobs will torch the neighbourhoods, no lists of undesireables will be circulated…
What’s there been historically?
Historically? During the XX century? Being on the wrong side you stood a good chance of being killed. Sent to a gulag or a concentration camp, maybe.
That’s the hope, right? We are living in a civilized society, etc. etc. There is not going to be a repeat of The Troubles, will there? No empire will collapse with a big bang, no mobs will torch the neighbourhoods, no lists of undesireables will be circulated…
Historically? During the XX century? Being on the wrong side you stood a good chance of being killed. Sent to a gulag or a concentration camp, maybe.
It is something I hope, and also something I guess is probably true. Of course I could turn out to be wrong.
Oh, for sure. But that’s an entirely different failure mode from the ones skeptical_lurker appears to be concerned with.