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??? I was just arguing (and expanding on said argument) against your description of politics as "an unarmed, nonviolent activity"
Interesting wiki read about New Zealand, I wasnt aware of it. Thanks.
I was saying that just because politics featured some violence at some point, does not necessarily mean that we should associate it with violence. Violence is a thing that exists. Politics is a thing that exists. They can exist independently, or together, it varies. In some places very heavy repression is used, and the process is extremely violent very regularly. In other places at other times, the process is peaceful and people agreeably settle their differences. It just depends.
In America, where I am, the process is usually nonviolent. It does not have to be nonviolent, but we really have nothing to gain from adding violence to the mix. We'll get the same varied sorts of results, except people will die in the process. No gain, just loss, since violence in no way ensures you will get some leader or system that is superior to another leader or system. I point to the large number of times a revolution has ushered in yet another shitty dictator who years later ended up hated by his people and eventually deposed as evidence of this principle.
And yea np.