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The Left is admitting in surveys that they’re more politically violent. In Cygnal’s October national poll, 60% of young liberals said breaking the law is OK if you disagree with the government. And 41% of all liberals concurred. Only 14% of conservatives held this belief.
Brent Buchanan
Cygnal founder and pollster
October 16, 2025
Left greenlights political violence on eve of ‘No Kings’ revolts
It is in their nature (see also here).
I want my underground bunker in Idaho to be finished.
So what is the law? The Constitution? Statutes? Common law? Random rulings by a politician in black robes? What if they conflict?
I can agree with some of that. I think it is fine to break the law when the law violates my rights. For example, laws against “high capacity” magazines are fine to be ignored and violated. So depending on the wording if the question I might be in the group as well
There is also the distinction about complying out of a sense of convenience or safety (from the government) and feeling a moral obligation to do so. I follow lots of laws that I regard as illegal, stupid or even immoral. All of us violate speed limits at times.
https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/gun-control/dc-mans-slip-of-the-tongue-lands-him-in-jail-for-possession-of-a-force-reset-trigger/
That was my thought as well. A law that violates the Constitution is null and void and may (should) be ignored.
But that’s not the sense in which I believe the question was being asked. It’s very much, “Is breaking laws against assault, looting, vandalism, arson, murder, etc., OK if you disagree with the government?”
And 41% of liberals said yes. While that’s not a majority, it is a LARGE plurality and a HUGE sub-set of the population.
If you extrapolate and assume ~40% of the population considers itself liberal (and ~40% conservative, and ~20% neutral/moderate), we’re talking about a hair over 16% (41% of the 40%) — close to 1 in 6 people — that is OK with smashing your teeth in and destroying your home/car/business because they disagree with you.
That’s more than a bit concerning.
Law is the equivalence of justice on a societal scale. We agree to law when it serves the justice of us all.
But that balance lays in the hearts and minds of those that live under it.
Once that scale of justice is weighted to one side or the other through politics or personal prejudice?
We are no longer under obligation to follow it.
“Fraud nullifies all contracts”.
When one is lied to about how a law is to be applied? Or the law is used outside of its congressionally desired, publicly announced intent?
Under our constitution, it is no longer a law.
2A is just. We agreed to it as citizens. Those with power swore an oath not to violate it.
And when they do, it is only with naked aggression.
Same with all law.
They must serve justice.
Although what we consider justice today has been very perverted by communism.
It very much is the only way a society can hold itself together.
Thus, the attack upon it. And the perversion of it. And the general ignoring of some-but not all laws.