{"id":34551,"date":"2022-07-09T07:51:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T12:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=34551"},"modified":"2022-07-09T07:51:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T12:51:35","slug":"is-the-us-on-the-verge-of-a-civil-war-yes-apparently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/09\/is-the-us-on-the-verge-of-a-civil-war-yes-apparently\/","title":{"rendered":"Is The US On The Verge Of A Civil War: Yes, apparently"},"content":{"rendered":"

“How Civil Wars Start<\/a>* and how to stop them” is a new book by Barbara Walter. Not Barbara Walters, Barbara Walter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I quote from recent WaPo article<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“[There is a] scale that goes from negative 10 to positive 10. Negative 10 is the most authoritarian, so think about North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain. Positive 10 are the most democratic. This, of course, is where you want to be. This would be Denmark, Switzerland, Canada. The U.S. was a positive 10 for many, many years. It\u2019s no longer a positive 10. And then it has this middle zone between positive 5 and negative 5, which was you had features of both. … scholars found was that this …variable was really predictive of a risk for civil war. That full democracies almost never have civil wars. Full autocracies rarely have civil wars. All of the instability and violence is happening in this middle zone. “<\/em><\/p>\n

The US is in or near the middle zone.<\/p>\n

This idea makes a lot of sense. This appears to be a must read book<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“How Civil Wars Start* and how to stop them” is a new book by Barbara Walter. Not Barbara Walters, Barbara Walter. I quote from recent WaPo article: “[There is a] scale that goes from negative 10 to positive 10. Negative 10 is the most authoritarian, so think about North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain. Positive 10 … Continue reading Is The US On The Verge Of A Civil War: Yes, apparently<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6232,5024,5026],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/CivilWarWater.jpg?fit=331%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-8Zh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34554,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34551\/revisions\/34554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}