| json_metadata | "{"app":"musing\/1.1","appTags":["politics","life","musing","steem","steemit",""],"appCategory":"politics","appTitle":"What do you think of political violence?","appBody":"<p>There is nothing to think really in terms of moral standing, as all manner of political violence should be frowned upon.<\/p><p>However, it remains a strong tool used by power grabbers and dictators to wrestle positions for themselves. They use fear, propaganda and actual forced to coerce the populace Into submission. <\/p><p>Another dimension of political violence stems from 'freedom fighters' who use it as a tool to overthrow a sitting leadership. History has shown that these acts are oftentimes selfishly motivated and benefit only the instigators.<\/p><p>Mahatma Gandhi has shown that political revolutions can be achieved without the use of excessive or any violence with the way his struggle created the Indian revolution.<\/p><p>My opinion is that politics has become all too synonymous with violence and should wrongly be equated in the same context.<\/p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"fk8ea3vsq","appParentAuthor":"citimillz","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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