getafix7 posted: " Civil wars don't generally explode with a single 'big bang'. For much of the time in their developmental phases they are slow-burning, small things building up a head of steam. Psychological limits of the possible have to be stretched, new normal"
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Civil wars don't generally explode with a single 'big bang'.
For much of the time in their developmental phases they are slow-burning, small things building up a head of steam.
Psychological limits of the possible have to be stretched, new normals more widely accepted – such as armed militias policing political rallies by a mainstream political party.
First, the power goes off; and then you hear machine guns on the streets.
In the US case today, the threat looms as democracy declines and slides towards authoritarianism because leaders consolidate their own power rather than respect democratic or constitutional norms.
There is a key moment – 'anocracy' – when an autocratic government becomes incapable of maintaining order as it has acceded to democratic demands and lost state capacity to repress; and a key moment of great danger when a democracy has declined to such an extent that the particular democratic state's government proves incapable of providing legitimate pathways to change and whose law enforcement institutions fail.
The state machine and the body politic has cracked, and a schism has opened up within the political establishment.
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