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It's human nature, as I see it, to wish death upon your opponents. For the purposes of this post lets call that a "Deathwish".
This is why we have laws and society, to help people mentally offload their frustration onto the authorities, as you are in these comments, (I'm gonna tell the FBI!) so that worse outcomes are avoided.
I see you trying to say there's a recent increase, and that I seriously doubt. I've seen regular Deathwish posts from my entire 15+ years at reddit. It's very easy to post a deathwish out of frustration and few people consider actually following through. (I'm sure people can post examples of deathwish fulfillment, but it is very rare compared to the number of deathwish comments)
As for the people accusing you of both sidesism - The major orgs on both sides do not endorse deathwish commenting, it's never been part of any major political platform I know of. Both sides, officially, are pretty reasonable.
There are deathwish commenters spread evenly across the political spectrum however. It's just too easy to post a deathwish.
There's nothing here!