and the existence of democratic options lowers incentives.

Those don’t exist anymore. Not in any real capacity, at least. More like utterly useless window dressing and decorative veneer, much like how North Korea is “democratic” simply because they put that word into the country’s name.

Corporations own nearly all the politicians short of ones like Bernie Sanders and OAC. Corporations write the laws and tell the politicians what to vote for. Corporations own and control EVERYTHING, and you have weapons-grade child-like naïvité if you think the working class has any real political power left in America.

Fighting fascism with violence is like fighting fire with gasoline.

Remind me again how Hitler’s Germany remained Fascist and in control of all of continental Europe over the last 75 years…

The patterns of behavior between shareholders, boards of directors, and executives is what’s killing people.

Sooooo… the target space has expanded?

At least the population of sociopaths would decline.