Nearly a third of Americans – 30% – say people may have to resort to violence in order to get the country back on track, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll.

It’s a sharp rise from 18 months ago, when 19% of Americans said the same.

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    4 days ago

    How do you think they were beaten? By running away?

    And loads if French resistors were teenaged.

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      4 days ago

      What was the single biggest success of the French resistance?

      What would those teenagers have done differently to not end up like the White Rose?

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        4 days ago

        They provided a massive amount of intelligence, without with, the advance of Allied forces would have been far slower, and far more bloody. They also freed quite a number of Allied POWs, and got them back past the lines. They also downed comms and infra against the Nazis to blind them and slow their advances. They were also a key reason France was able to rapidly rebuild it’s forces post WWII.

        Do people just skip WWII history these days?

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          People like to romanticize the effectiveness of individual heroism but that’s not what wins wars.

          France wasn’t liberated until a giant army showed up and pushed the Nazis out. That was mostly possible because the US had poured unprecedented resources into the war and the Soviets traded millions of lives with them.