In your reckoning, you ignore the difference in access to politicians. UK MPs have weekly 'surgeries' where any constituent discuss issues one on one. It's somewhat harder to meet a representative one on one in the States.
The UK gets it right. Half again as many representatives as the US, while having a fifth of the population. So each MP has about 100K citizens they represent, versus each representative in the US that has more like 750K.
Quite. Jo Cox, David Amess and Andrew Pennington (a local
councillor defending MP Nigel Jones) were all murdered at surgeries. Stephen Timms also survived an attempted murder by stabbing.
> In the past few years we've had politicians on both sides killed in politically motivated attacks. I think that's a worse tally than the US as well. (emphasis added)
Looking from the outside, I think US political discourse IS far more hostile.
Britain won't accept things like Politicians being harassed, or one politician calling for other politicians to be harassed (and that's before we even get to anything Trump related).
And the amount of references I see to "civil war" when wandering across anything relating to US politics (i.e. not zero) is disturbing.
Huh?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Congress...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_MPs_killed_in_...
UK 3 in last 30 years, US 2. For a US population of 40x larger, and easier access to guns.