Thank you for this essay. As a person who graduated from high school during the time of the Vietnam war I have seen a lot of violence associated with political issues. There were the riots about the war itself, race riots like the Rodney King thing, and the assassination attempt on President Reagan. The point is there have always been radical people or groups but the new radicals are different. I think firstly we have medicated a lot of the young people into a psychotic state for years and now the harm is becoming obvious. Add into the mix the transgender thing where we take a mentally ill person then pump them full of dangerous drugs to modify their appearance greatly decreasing the ability to see reality and you get the gasoline on a fire thing. Add more fuel with social media and biased news and you have a five alarm fire.