With dysfunctional government and people in power abusing the population, the first step response is unhinged folks doing unhinged things.
> but this is not how you handle it
The problem being that the mechanisms for handling it aren't working (judicial, executive, legislative, regulatory, stockholders, public pressure). The next steps of handling it are unhinged folks doing unhinged things. Several more steps down the road handling it means ordinary folks doing revolutionary things.
This is what long term dysfunctional government not representing the people looks like. This is a result of the politics of fear.
The end of this path looks like a bloodthirsty mob with a guillotine. After the French got disgusted with themselves having executed 30,000 to 50,000 people they overthrew the revolutionaries and were promptly taken over by Napoleon.
The structural problems that lead to this kind of popular support for an unhinged dude assassinating a CEO need to be addressed, and the fix doesn't focus on unhinged dudes or public opinion of them.
> but this is not how you handle it
The problem being that the mechanisms for handling it aren't working (judicial, executive, legislative, regulatory, stockholders, public pressure). The next steps of handling it are unhinged folks doing unhinged things. Several more steps down the road handling it means ordinary folks doing revolutionary things.
This is what long term dysfunctional government not representing the people looks like. This is a result of the politics of fear.
The end of this path looks like a bloodthirsty mob with a guillotine. After the French got disgusted with themselves having executed 30,000 to 50,000 people they overthrew the revolutionaries and were promptly taken over by Napoleon.
The structural problems that lead to this kind of popular support for an unhinged dude assassinating a CEO need to be addressed, and the fix doesn't focus on unhinged dudes or public opinion of them.