Civil War Warning Signs

[orangecrush]

Buckle up.

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[Lovie777]

1. Courts....

[Frasier Balzov]

4. Trial courts are being targeted for elimination.

And judges and staff are vulnerable to having their pay suddenly stopped at Treasury.

Courts either won't be in their way or will be seated with judges who agree with the ongoing usurpation.

Where would be the next line of resistance after that?

[marybourg]

5. I think you know the answer to that one.

[GoreWon2000]

26. The Rehnquist 5 created this nightmare

when they stopped the legal Florida vote count in 2000.

[RJ-MacReady]

2. scary

This is a possibility.

[PatrickforB]

3. Why did the journalist not just let her talk? I hate that shit. n/t

Un-effing-believable - WE NEVER GOT TO HEAR THE TWO FACTORS. Shit. Crummy interviewing.

[Swede]

8. Exactly, she was about to say the 2 most important factors and she got sidetracked by the anchor.

FFS

[Native]

20. The anchor mentioned the two factors in her opening remarks at the very beginning.

[PatrickforB]

27. Yeah, but when it came time for Walter to elaborate on those factors she cut her off to ask some inane question.

So I posted a more complete version below.

[ZDU]

12. Don't!

Don't get that close to disclosure and further discussion! Legacy media regularly and routinely reigns-in the truth tellers.

[Seinan Sensei]

18. Totally agree

I want to know the two most predictive factors.
The interviewer got right to the most important part, then slipped-in a canned question off an index card.
I will do my own digging, to learn Barbara F Walter’s most predictive factors.
Terrible (rookie?) interviewer, indeed.

[Native]

19. yes you did...the anchor mentioned them at the very beginning

prior to the interview. the 1st is anocracy, and the 2nd is when the citizens of that country start to organize around identity rather than ideology. It was in her opening remarks.

[misanthrope]

25. The two factors are

anocracy (or partial democracy) like is seen in Hungary, and ethnic factionalism.

[Pinback]

6. Thanks for bringing attention to this important scholar's work.

When I posted about her warnings a few months ago, I was lambasted with replies like “Yawn,” “Dr. Walter has a book to sell,” and so on. I think more of us are ready to take her message seriously now.

[orangecrush]

21. Most welcome

It certainly isn't hyperbole now.

[orangecrush]

22. This totally explains Musk's purchase of Twitter

The author said social media is one of the main tools for those who start these conflicts, and needs to be regulated.

[EarthAbides]

7. DT losing control...

Dumpster Trump is losing control of the narrative and he knows it. I expect him to do something this next week to get back in control of the narrative. Malcolm Nance thinks Dumpster Trump is going to bomb Iran. Dumpster Trump is threatening Iran with annihilation as I write this.

[erronis]

9. Her last points included "Protests and peaceful resistance work."

Don't give up!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. Mass action: signs, memes, protests, economic choices, stress-testing DOdGEy replacements, voting

Get out the vote in Florida ASAP.

[Amaryllis]

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[erronis]

10. Barbara F. Walter on Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_F._Walter

[ZDU]

11. Religious based extremists

Call it what it is.
Hate-based religious extremists. Period.
The hateful sheep follow their shepard.

[JustAnotherGen]

13. I highly

Recommend her book. There's a reason why Black folks have been arming ourselves the past few months.

[CitizenZero]

14. Following

Bookmarked.

[Magoo48]

15. There are no saviors at the top. Government cannot fix itself.

We The Grass Roots of the United States of America are the solution. Through massive and sustained actions,, we must make it clear to those we would like to govern us what we want, and we will settle for nothing less. Our leaders have to know that we hired them to do a fucking job, not to get rich, not to ignore and abuse us, but to follow our orders to the best of their ability, since, we are their employers.
Free governments are afraid of the people.
Oppressed people are afraid of their government.

[Kaleva]

17. People here are now embracing guns

[PatrickforB]

24. OK, the 'journalist' cut Walter off while she was about to elaborate on the two main factors that cause

civil war. It bugged the heck out of me so I looked it up. Here is a report from some local station prior to its release in January this year. Here is the link: https://www.kpbs.org/news/midday-edition/2022/01/06/new-book-looks-at-root-causes-of-civil-unrest

Note how the title of this article edits 'civil war' to read 'civil unrest.' Guess they don't want us to talk about these right wing Nazi militia groups.

One year ago Thursday, insurrectionists swarmed the U.S. Capitol, shocking the nation and leaving many wondering how robust our democracy really is. A new book looks at the conditions that lead to civil war in countries throughout the world and searches for answers on how to avoid them.

Barbara Walter, the author of "How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them," joined Midday Edition on the 1-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, to talk about the book, including what characteristics the United States of today shares with countries that have had civil wars.

Walter says two major factors are common in the lead up to civil wars. The first comes from a fraying of democracy in the country. The other is "whether a country's politics devolve into racial, ethnic or religious politics," she said. "The groups that tend to start civil wars are the groups that were once politically dominant, and have either lost power, or are in the process of losing power," Walters said. Walters, who is also a UC San Diego political science professor, talked about how racism and the fear of changing racial demographics in the nation have been feeding dissent.

"People don't want war, but they will turn to violence when they lose hope in the existing system. And here in the United States, I do think the subset of the white population, that is deeply threatened by changing demographics, has come to realize that democracy no longer works for them," Walter said.