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In addition, it appears that the conditions needed for civil war are very close to being realised in the US!
According to Barbara F Walters in a 2022 article in npub1tcddhx4nlhjv67zylj5c3yhhyjm7pesl306faja5u8azaf2xzq2qzy2mvw (npub1tcd…2mvw) [“‘These are conditions ripe for political violence’: how close is the US to civil war?“ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/06/how-close-is-the-us-to-civil-war-barbara-f-walter-stephen-march-christopher-parker?ref=upstract.com]:
“Civil war experts know that two factors put countries at high risk of civil war. The US has one of these risk factors and remains dangerously close to the second. Neither risk factor has diminished since 6 January.
The first is ethnic factionalism. This happens when citizens in a country organise themselves into political parties based on ethnic, religious, or racial identity rather than ideology. The second is anocracy. This is when a government is neither fully democratic nor fully autocratic; it’s something in between.
Civil wars almost never happen in full, healthy, strong democracies. They also seldom happen in full autocracies. Violence almost always breaks out in countries in the middle – those with weak and unstable pseudo-democracies. Anocracy plus factionalism is a dangerous mix.”
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In addition, it appears that the conditions needed for civil war are very close to being realised in the US!
According to Barbara F Walters in a 2022 article in npub1tcddhx4nlhjv67zylj5c3yhhyjm7pesl306faja5u8azaf2xzq2qzy2mvw (npub1tcd…2mvw) [“‘These are conditions ripe for political violence’: how close is the US to civil war?“ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/06/how-close-is-the-us-to-civil-war-barbara-f-walter-stephen-march-christopher-parker?ref=upstract.com]:
“Civil war experts know that two factors put countries at high risk of civil war. The US has one of these risk factors and remains dangerously close to the second. Neither risk factor has diminished since 6 January.
The first is ethnic factionalism. This happens when citizens in a country organise themselves into political parties based on ethnic, religious, or racial identity rather than ideology. The second is anocracy. This is when a government is neither fully democratic nor fully autocratic; it’s something in between.
Civil wars almost never happen in full, healthy, strong democracies. They also seldom happen in full autocracies. Violence almost always breaks out in countries in the middle – those with weak and unstable pseudo-democracies. Anocracy plus factionalism is a dangerous mix.”
#US #EthnicFactionalism #Anocracy #CivilWar2.0