How to Tell If the Election Will Get Violent
It was a tense and angry October. The United States had never felt more divided. Young people were marching in the streets and being met with heavily armed troops. People were seeking meaning in their lives, and finding it in ideology.
It wasn’t 2020. It was 1967.
Within a couple years, a group called the Weather Underground had decided to try to overthrow the U.S. government.According to Bryan Burrough, the author of , the group believed the racism and imperialism of the U.S. were so awful, and the public so complicit, that only explosions could convince people of their point of view. Some of its members desperately wanted in their lives; others were” over America’s misdeeds. The more the FBI and the police cracked down on them, it seemed, the more fervently the Weathermen dreamed of fighting back with force. Though they caused no deaths outside their own group, overall, the Weathermen took credit for , including attacks on the Capitol and the Pentagon.
