Based on her work for a CIA task force aimed at predicting civil wars, political scientist Barbara F. Walter examines the rise in extremism and threats to democracies around the globe — and paints an unsettling picture of the increasing likelihood of a second civil war in the United States.
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Derick Kamura
August 15, 2023 at 3:10 pm
Predicting civil wars is possible by identifying factors such as anocracies and identity-based political parties, and addressing risk factors such as declining political dominance, demographic change, and social media algorithms.
00:00 📈 Predicting civil wars is possible, with solid data showing that only two factors, not the expected ones, are highly predictive.
02:07 📜 Anocracies, which are partially democratic governments, and the formation of political parties based on identity rather than ideology, are factors that can contribute to a country’s potential for civil war.
03:01 📺 The speaker highlights the absence of the US on a watchlist of countries at risk of political violence, despite concerns over election fairness, Russian interference, and President Trump’s refusal to accept election results, suggesting the potential for political instability and violence.
05:23 📜 The groups that tend to start civil wars are those that were once politically dominant but are now in decline, as seen in examples like the Serbs in Yugoslavia and the Sunnis in Iraq, and in the United States, the rise of militias has been driven by white men who feel threatened by changing American identity.
07:02 📺 The US is experiencing demographic change as it transitions from a majority white population to a majority non-white population, and how Americans handle this shift will determine whether they are torn apart or come together to create a diverse and inclusive democracy.
08:15 💼 Improve the rule of law, ensure equal access to voting, reduce corruption, and improve government services to address the risk factors of civil war, while businesses can play a role by demanding real democracy and investing in communities left behind by globalization and free-trade agreements.
10:07 📢 Regulating social media algorithms that amplify incendiary and divisive content can help decrease the influence of extremists and protect democracy.
11:24 📜 Civil wars can be prevented if we fight for real democracy and create our own playbook to counter the playbook of those intent on violence.
The Singularity Report
August 15, 2023 at 3:17 pm
Based on these comments we’re doomed 😂
I know it’s no laughing matter but we might as well start getting our affairs in order. Because I really don’t see our government actually handling the core issues.
Scott Webster
August 15, 2023 at 3:36 pm
Good research but, a force politically motivated result. This is a political activist. It comes down to, who paid her for the results that, that group wants.
IronMongoose1
August 15, 2023 at 3:50 pm
Oh, how convenient that all the “solutions” proposed by this so-called “expert” just “so happen to” also be measures that would make the United States a more just, more compassionate, and more liveable society for everyone.
Tyler Williams
August 15, 2023 at 3:54 pm
Civil war, no. War implies two sides with mutual understanding that there’s a conflict. Increased violent right wing violent crime and lawlessness? That goes unaddressed by the politicians that sanction it because it helps them? Definitely.
funkdubayous
August 15, 2023 at 4:15 pm
I wouldn’t consider BLM riots and Antifa right wing. But the lawlessness and violence is definitely unaddressed by the left
Neil C
August 15, 2023 at 4:03 pm
Wow! Never knew the Democrats have started their election campaign through “Ted Talk”??
Good one. ‼️😄
funkdubayous
August 15, 2023 at 4:12 pm
She lost all credibility when she mentioned whites losing demographic majority and didn’t mention Bidens open border.
letme intoemail
August 15, 2023 at 4:19 pm
Yes
Jeff Milligan
August 15, 2023 at 4:26 pm
So basically what she is advocating for ESG scores. And if you raise minimum wage, only the big companies can afford it, and will drive small businesses into bankruptcy.
Victoria Allred
August 15, 2023 at 8:42 pm
I noticed that too. I was wondering how a supposed experiment could be so naive
Jeff Milligan
August 15, 2023 at 4:29 pm
“enemies of democracy”
Jeff Milligan
August 15, 2023 at 4:31 pm
Free speech but… “If we take away their bullhorn, their influence will decline”. Quite the contrary.
Eli King
August 15, 2023 at 5:21 pm
It’s not. They can still say what they want, it just won’t be pushed out to millions of people.
Jeff Milligan
August 15, 2023 at 5:34 pm
Ah I see, so algorithms to suppress certain messages. That’s how free speech works. Amplification for some, compression for others. Now I get it. @Eli King
Karl Ip
August 15, 2023 at 5:04 pm
As a non American, hearing the list of civil war she listed out, and seeing how America had their hand in many of those “civil wars”.. just wow.
E Man
August 15, 2023 at 6:18 pm
America loves to start wars. It’s the way the politicians sell the weapons for wars and then they get paid by working for the corporations or do talks for them and get paid a ridiculous amount of money for those talks.
Jason Bugs
August 15, 2023 at 5:15 pm
You can do whatever you think you need to. But, I will not be told how to live by any politician. I will not allow LGBT members to preach to my kids and I will not allow my speech to be dictated. If you respect my rights as a man and a father, we have no issues. If you try to silence, oppress, or attack me or my people, now we have a problem. People need to learn to mind their own business.
Davydh Trethewey - mawkernewek
August 15, 2023 at 5:20 pm
6:32 *It was the United States who started that war
Davydh Trethewey - mawkernewek
August 15, 2023 at 5:27 pm
12:25 the democracy loving people of this world? That isn’t the CIA, with its record of supporting coups, torture etc.
johnny comelately
August 15, 2023 at 6:56 pm
One of the best and most important talks
Arcata
August 15, 2023 at 6:58 pm
Trump 2024!
Chris Torres
August 15, 2023 at 7:14 pm
Yea in jail
Crow06 Warrior
August 15, 2023 at 7:30 pm
There is the Left, the Middle, and the Right political / cultural divisions within the US. The Middle is the vast majority with the Left and Right equally represented. Only the Left and Right will come to blows with the Middle too timid to get involved. The Left can’t decide which bathroom to use. The Right is armed to the teeth. Which do you think will win? The Left will be annihilated within minutes.
Remy Lebeau
August 15, 2023 at 7:31 pm
No, the Russia hoax was completely debunked. She is lying directly to your face. Trump didn’t lose the election, and trying to demand honesty from the most evil monsters in gov’t and transparency for elections and justice against criminals that illegally change voting rules to benefit their side is NOT “overturning the results”. It is proving the lying democrats to be the evil monsters that they are.
CaptainKeelhaul
August 15, 2023 at 7:43 pm
A civil war in the U.S. would definitely limit its ability to project power abroad… We can’t allow that now, can we? 😉
onionfox
August 15, 2023 at 7:46 pm
If you want the government to regulate something, it should be corporate “voice” before social media.
Boris Godzinevski
August 15, 2023 at 8:22 pm
You sometimes forget how liberal TedTalk is but here’s a nice reminder. Caucasian dominant countries can and some will close their borders and implement policies to grow their demographic. The United States will undoubtedly have a civil war as all fallen empires do. It’s simply a question of scope.
Mikell Byrne
August 15, 2023 at 8:25 pm
The checks are still clearing until they don’t were ok❤ that’s funny the cia doesn’t spy on the us citizens
Tony Robertson
August 15, 2023 at 8:58 pm
She lost me at…Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
Ben Ink
August 15, 2023 at 9:17 pm
Mentions Russia collusion which has been debunked but doesnt mention the greatest election interference via weaponizing the DOJ agaianst a standing president. I hate Trump, but i hate unfairness and corruption the most, which is solely in the hands of the DNC these days. What a shilp
Dean Barber
August 16, 2023 at 6:34 am
Aaah some more Doom & Gloom from the folks at TedTalk. 😂
For fucks sake! We’re gonna be fine. Relax.
Maria Ybarra
August 16, 2023 at 8:12 am
No, no, no, I did not make the comment “ what’s good for the goose..” for this video, I made it for another video, how did it get to this video? This is not right!
Rogue Gryphonica
August 16, 2023 at 8:23 am
She probably should have looked at South Africa today before using it as an example of integration and success.
Ingrid Snook
August 16, 2023 at 8:47 am
Where do the billionaires who orchestrate unrest and wars for their own benefit fit in?
Lionel Williams
August 16, 2023 at 9:22 am
In my views it is the C!A that start most ci!vll wars in other countries and most likely have a hand in whats happening in america right now, 9/ll was not what most people thought.
K. Scott
August 16, 2023 at 9:38 am
The problem is that anyone who disagrees with the left’s agenda is labeled a hateful bigot and a bully. And if you form a Facebook group that disagrees with the left’s agenda, then that’s a potential mob. That means the left gets to remove the scope of that group’s platform of discussion? Because if that group influences anyone, then they’re bullies? Disagree with the left’s agenda, and they”ll find a way to control you. You can say what you want, but only while you’re in a locked room, where virtually no one can hear you, and they’ll happily hold the key to that room to protect everyone from your views? If you do and say what fits their agenda, then maybe they’ll let you out of Facebook jail and stop messing with your algorithm. Does this sound like America? Freedom of speech? Freedom of religion? Freedom of anything? A representative government? In my opinion, she’s the one who is dangerous. Besides, in our constitutional republic, we are allowed to say hateful things, whether or not people like it. This is what freedom of speech means.
Clint Stinkeye
August 16, 2023 at 9:52 am
Civial disobedience is one thing.
Civial war is another.
Just to clarify my statement, I don’t have any desire to be a wartime participant.
Not even a little bit.
Ted Hawk
August 16, 2023 at 10:20 am
She has a great future as a CNN guest analyst. They will eat it up.
Mark Edis
August 16, 2023 at 11:01 am
Trump seriously screwed things up. I think he needs locking up.
Matthew Making Music
August 16, 2023 at 11:02 am
Her conclusions are based on Russiagate and January 6th, both debunked. RUSSIA did NOT hack our election and Jan 6th was led and planned by Feds on Discord. I call BS
SV Paradigme 2.0
August 16, 2023 at 11:37 am
So sad very sad going to limiting free speech is sad and so wrong
Tabetha Meeks
August 16, 2023 at 12:35 pm
This is a joke
David Kendall
August 16, 2023 at 12:49 pm
Violence is the pillar on which all societies are built and its repression is tantamount to societal collapse.
For societies to function, there must be a set of agreed upon rules, which we call laws, to govern all individuals which comprise them. Without those rules to abide by, individuals would likely work against each other and societies would collapse. Even assuming the good will of the individuals comprising a society, having laws allows us to determine the point at which a dysfunctional individual must be stopped by force.
Of course, laws are simply words. Spoken words or words on paper, but only words. Laws gain power through their enforcement, and enforcement is only possible through violence or the implied threat of violence. As an example, a man may pay off a speeding ticket because he thinks it’s the right thing to do, but what stops him from deciding he doesn’t feel like paying it is the threat of being forcefully taken to jail. And once in jail, what keeps him behaved is the threat of further confinement, which is achieved through violence.
Thus, without violence, laws cannot be enforced. If laws cannot be enforced, the laws mean nothing. If the laws mean nothing, then nothing stops individuals from acting against the well-being of that society. And if nothing stops individuals from acting against the well being of society, then the society will eventually collapse. It will take longer in societies where individuals are responsible, but it will happen eventually. What keeps the predatory, the sociopathic, from gaining full power over individuals aiming to make society function, is the threat of violence against them.
Thus, the notion that “violence is never the answer” is a laughable one. We teach (or rather, our governments teach) our children that violence is wrong, that they must never use it no matter what. The aim of this is to create a society of slaves who will never protect themselves when abused.
P Jaworek
August 16, 2023 at 12:51 pm
“Anocracy” thank you!❤
Keep in Mind
August 16, 2023 at 2:31 pm
а эта црушница почему не рассказывает, что это её шарашка и организовывала большую часть гражданских войн? десятки стран в мире вздрагивают в холодном поту от фразы “это угроза для демократии”. эх, глупенькая тётя! закройте ЦРУ, и количество гражданских войн в мире резко сократится.
D
August 16, 2023 at 3:49 pm
Dictators use censorship.
mimosveta
August 16, 2023 at 4:03 pm
it’s hilarious that this instigator of civil wars, blames climate change for current state of usa, when the sole cause of climate change is the us military. it’s spectacular how rounded her lies are
Dot
August 16, 2023 at 6:00 pm
People are easily brain washed,deceived by the god of this world,small g ,as at current the god of this world is satan,youll never stop them,or stop humans being deceived, as satan has supernatural powers. JOHN 3.16
Stripe
August 16, 2023 at 7:04 pm
Yuck, someone was rejected 😆
M K
August 16, 2023 at 7:27 pm
Civil war in Syria? And russia is not mentioned? This lady would say that there’s a civil war anywhere, even in Ukraine, as she’s on payroll for civil war studies
ejays99
August 16, 2023 at 8:22 pm
This is sort of LEFT-slanted take on what’s causing division in America. She makes the issue about race and identity, claiming that white men are the ones rising up due to their loss of institutional power; when in reality, the issue is more broadly a conflict between right and left, both of which have supporters from various backgrounds. Right DOES NOT mean “white,” and left DOES NOT mean “all other minorities,” but unfortunately, that is the mindset these dividers want you to have. It’s the mere attempt to make all of our conversations about identity and race, the thing that prevents progress and increases division. Stop pitting people against one another based on identity and find common ground with your fellow human.
ejays99
August 16, 2023 at 8:40 pm
“Do not allow the algorithms to amplify the messages of bullies, hatemongers, conspiracy theorists, etc…” Okay… but who gets to be the judge of what falls in those categories? That sounds like Twitter pre-Elon Musk, a completely bias platform that attempted to control narratives and influence elections.
Suvrat Kothari
August 16, 2023 at 8:59 pm
That’s spot on perspective. It’s happening in India as well. As more non-Hindu communities and tribals are getting education and beginning to hold positions of power, the dominant community has begun spewing hate and false alarms. Its using its own declining and less educated population to terrorize others.
김영이
August 16, 2023 at 9:13 pm
I thought US was the least country that’s heading towards another civil war and the most democratic one, so I’m very surprised 😮
Tony Garrido
August 16, 2023 at 9:31 pm
The reason there’s no risk of civil war in America is because it’s run by rich people who don’t want to lose their investments, obedient government or customers. Civil war here is still a long way off. In America, bet on greed. Greed still wins every time.
S. R.
August 18, 2023 at 4:53 pm
Here we are listening to a CIA agent, or CIA subcontractor. What to make of it? I pass…
Raeinok
August 18, 2023 at 4:56 pm
We need a second New Deal era, pass FDR’s 2nd Bill Of Rights, empower unions and promote working class solidarity.
Nicholas Byrne
August 18, 2023 at 5:01 pm
Are you having a laugh, CIA YOUR CROWD OVERTHREW AROUND 80 DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENTS BETWEEN 1948/1989 ALONE, YOUR STUDY WAS RELATED TO STUDY ON HOW TO CREATE CIVIL WAR TOGETHER WITH HIGHLIGHTING COUNTRIES WHERE CIA WOULD BE SUCCESSFUL. JESUS CIA PROBLEM IS THEIR GOD LIKE EGOS
Lynn Tiscione
August 18, 2023 at 5:03 pm
How about when U.S. elections are stolen…as in 2022…This woman has studied civil war for 30 years and has learned nothing
lets-learn
August 18, 2023 at 5:13 pm
Author should directly said, in next election do not vote for Trump.
Nick Manson
August 18, 2023 at 5:39 pm
Great presentation.
Sergio Paulo
August 18, 2023 at 5:42 pm
at 6:57 as she smirks (and nods) say, ” as they were the ones who marched on the capitol”…
i cant help but think of the video of the “agents” that were involved in the incident, trying to pull officers who were responding to the scene, into the crowd…
what were the intentions there?…
Charles Smyth
August 18, 2023 at 5:55 pm
The CIA may be legally hobbled, but they have MI6 and GCHQ to keep track of the situation in the US. No one is stopping the white population from having more babies. The problem for democracy in the US the UK and Israel, etc., is the organising principle that applies to that which concludes with a party in power that is beholden to a faction of voters.
Patrick Threewit
August 18, 2023 at 5:56 pm
Barbara Walter, I’ve listened to your talks before, and this one really puts it out there, but I’m afraid the conservative evangelical Christian nationalists want war. Online sites encourage idiots to get ready to kill all liberals and any one who wants to have democracy. I’m a non-conservative old man living in one of the reddist of states, but at least I write opinions in my local paper. Keep up the good work.
John Tucker
August 18, 2023 at 6:10 pm
I think Dr. Walter is absolutely right about social media. For all of its positive attributes, social media content in its current state has posed a real problem for societies, both in the U.S. and abroad. Just looking at the U.S., it is a serious enough problem that we cannot just throw up our hands and say “First Amendment” and do nothing!
Right now, powerful private corporations and their billionaire owners, representing a miniscule of our population and motivated by their own selfish interests, are in control of the algorithms that in large part control what is brought to our attention on social media. There is at present a lack of control, regulation and influence by the broader society, electorate, citizenry and elected government. These powerful private corporations and billionaires/oligarchs are not primarily concerned about promoting the broader public interests, civics and ethics that help maintain a peaceful, healthy democratic society. Instead they are primarily interested in maximizing their own profits and power. The algorithms which these companies have designed, maintained and use serve their own purposes and not necessarily the public good. As we have seen, this is very dangerous in a democratic society because the algorithms often promote divisiveness and can be weaponized to allow lies and propaganda to flourish.
While it is a difficult task, I believe that the U.S. needs to tackle this problem and put in place some regulatory scheme for social media consistent with our national values as embodied in our Constitution, our evolving law, and our social norms that promote peace, justice and stability.
blaeks
August 18, 2023 at 6:48 pm
Looool CIA “predicts” civil wars;) This is fun!!!
o
August 18, 2023 at 6:54 pm
Seems more and more that it’s actually the Democrats that will start the Civil War, they are falling out of favor with the everyday voter, the only way for them to keep power is by force, with will lead the people to rise up! If you ask me it’s the Democrats!
uvcoach42
August 18, 2023 at 6:54 pm
There’s nothing civil about a war.. lives lost not good but the left keeps pushing it’s going to happen take their crazy somewhere else .
blaeks
August 18, 2023 at 7:09 pm
It went sooo much around, that it eventually came around. Despite the amout of complete BS when it comes to the perspective of this self-observation.
RPlavo
August 18, 2023 at 7:09 pm
Racism and white superiority are deeply embedded in our citizens
blaeks
August 18, 2023 at 7:09 pm
Sad.
Dell Anderson
August 18, 2023 at 7:25 pm
What a load of crock!
Speaker pontificates about the wonders of South Africa where they can’t keep the electricity on or the water running.
She says the solution to ‘identity politics’ is to fund certain groups (identities?).
She claims she has nothing against ‘free speech’ but the algorithms should suppress speech she doesn’t like.
And to prevent war we have to FIGHT for democracy???
Sounds exactly like what Trump said when he allegedly told his followers to fight for a fair election result.
She has one thing right, anyone associated with the CIA has no business messing with American politics. She should sit down right now.
The Novice Wanderer
August 18, 2023 at 7:45 pm
Did she say the usa is not allowed to spy on its Citizens? 😂😂
LEFT to it ALL
August 18, 2023 at 8:09 pm
This is a great propaganda video!
Barbara F. Walter is a “civil war expert” and she worked with the CIA. The same institution that is the main factor creating regime change coupes, color-revolutions and civil-wars around the world. Funny how none of the “experts” came to that conclusion? The root cause…
She lost all credibility when she said she was working with the CIA in the first place. More so when she stated that the CIA doesn’t spy on its own citizens and then – of course – more Russia-gate conspiracy nonsense that has been debunked so many times at this point it is ridiculous.
If the US has a civil war it will be – very simply – because the intelligence agencies want to keep the working class and the poor fighting each other. To prevent us from looking up at our true exploiters and unifying to fight against the bitter class war we are being subjected to.
The revolution starts in the mind – through education – and in the heart – through moral conviction. Propaganda like this must be called out for exactly what it is.
WowUsernameAvailable
August 18, 2023 at 8:16 pm
Very interesting, coming here from a socialist channel and hearing that it was thanks to capitalists that Apartheid was ended.
Arthur Wilton
August 18, 2023 at 8:22 pm
Woke politics is much more than just the transfer of power from white people to other reacial groups. It involves loss of free speech, loss of due process, the triumph of identity politics over the individual, usurpation of parental rights by the state, and horrendous medical abuses. Despite what the speaker says, it these issues, rather than the skin color of our new citizens, that is driving the USA’s current political crisis.
Ted's Custom Crafted Pens
August 18, 2023 at 8:47 pm
Only if Trump is not convicted. Okay, watching the video now….
Mellow
August 18, 2023 at 9:13 pm
I think I saw this talk a few years ago, no?
George Cooksey
August 19, 2023 at 5:05 pm
Inane fear mongering. Good lord, a hot civil war? And this person is an “expert”. God help us.
irfan haqqee
August 19, 2023 at 5:31 pm
It has been determined twice that Russia did not interfere in 2016 Presidential election. Your premise is wrong.
VanDyck Silveira
August 19, 2023 at 5:35 pm
Prof. Walter is a biased leftist academic who doesn’t use mathematical and econometric models to substantiate her allegations, which amount to nothing eles but opinions. Walter forgets that correlation doesn’t imply causation and she stops at correlation with her two variables that predict civil wars. Furthermore, her suggestion to curb political violence is for states to sanction, restrict and censor social media is the very reason why people mobilized on January 6th, which is in and of itself the real threat to democracy. There can’t be a democracy without free speech, and this is why the first amendment of the American constitution deals with freedom of speech. It baffles me that TED and people stop to listen to this demagogue who has a clear axe to grind and applaud her litany of fake data and allegations under the guise of academia.
The Dislike Button
August 19, 2023 at 5:59 pm
if karma were a real thing, then America has a very protracted bloody and catastrophic civil war coming soon.
But since there is no such thing as karma, and the average American tax slave cares for nothing more than the score on his favorite ball game, the idea of a second civil war happening in this wretched hellhole is delusional paranoia.
Instead America will just continue to slowly and peacefully degrade into a fourth world garbage dump.
Jo McMinn
August 19, 2023 at 6:01 pm
A very interesting talk. Especially now that Trump has been indicted multiple times. But a civil war here would not be region based like the prevous war. So it is more complex now. There are purple states and blue cities inside red states and vice versa. It would most likely be race based and or ideological warfare in every city. Or rural vs urban. It would be extremely complex. And everyone would end up worse off.
Guillermo El Nino
August 19, 2023 at 6:06 pm
Id take gettysburg over awshwitz any day.
randomguy
August 19, 2023 at 6:14 pm
Let me guess all the radical progressive ideas are facts, and anything remotely questioning the radical progressive doctrine is “misinformation” and needs to be censored?
Divine Verkijika
August 19, 2023 at 6:21 pm
Her predictions are right. But her explanation is biased
Divine Verkijika
August 19, 2023 at 6:26 pm
CIA paid for her report
Divine Verkijika
August 19, 2023 at 6:26 pm
Shes scared of the Clintons
Nick Schroeder
August 19, 2023 at 6:40 pm
It is if the lying, race baiting, science illiterate, fake news media has anything to do about it.
Pel Qel
August 19, 2023 at 6:44 pm
This whole speech is nothing but persuasive propaganda based upon disinformation.
Akshay Shahare
August 19, 2023 at 7:02 pm
When she say CIA not Allowed to Monitor USA… I lost interest in her video….
bubly spark
August 19, 2023 at 7:25 pm
CENSORSHIP IS THE REASON THEY HAVE 23.2 MILLION SUBCIBERS AND ONLY 990 COMMENTS
The Pattersons
August 19, 2023 at 7:29 pm
I was very interested in what a Ted talk about this topic would hold however… oversimplification anyone? I really hope she doesn’t represent how the CIA actually views these things because I don’t know that I have ever heard such an incredible oversimplification of so many global geopolitical issues that led to civil war in many nations. Then her solution?!? What? I am ALL about adjusting the algorithm, but are you telling me that step is the key to preventing our civil war? That’s it? I’m sorry I don’t buy that simplified view of the layers of issues we are dealing with here.
Lynn Moss
August 19, 2023 at 7:30 pm
a key point in this talk is the social media algorithyms. So why not have the algorithyms take a popular post and use it to introduce people of opposing views so conversations can happen? If people from opposite sides get talking anything is possible
Renia E Saddler
August 19, 2023 at 7:56 pm
Christianity isn’t an ideology. It’s a religion that some have taken and converted into an ideology. In heretical Christianity, and every other kind of ideology, there might be peace but it will be the kind fostered by slavery and will lead to an increasingly more solidified slavery. That is the end of every ideology. Identity politics may or may not lead to slavery but it will never lead to peace, just an endless state of chaos.
Ideology or identity? I say neither is a solid foundation for building peace.
T O P
August 19, 2023 at 8:14 pm
IN SHORT, it would be the greatest favor you could DO to the the planet and its good people,
gang up on the field and go for it , don’t stop please.
Alex Cipriani
August 19, 2023 at 8:18 pm
lol what a load of BS, it’s not about white/non white it’s about economic policy, business community must pay their taxes not focus on identity politics
Turf Surf
August 19, 2023 at 8:21 pm
Snowden proved her wrong years ago.
Fernando Marquez
August 19, 2023 at 8:37 pm
I would subscribe to more TED,on democracy and civil war, .
JDF
August 19, 2023 at 8:42 pm
So is the suggestion that the United States transforms itself from a Representative Republic to a full-fledged democracy? This is problematic in itself, as the densely populated coastal states would ultimately rule over all the other states. And how about when you have so-called leaders purposely, and systematically pitting groups against each other?
James Pond
August 19, 2023 at 9:02 pm
We will listen to someone that has worked with an organization that has had an active hand in endless civil wars, conflict, coups, and assassinations to tell us ‘how the sausage is made’? I’ll get my information elsewhere – apart from the party’s corporate hitmen.
Mark Berman
August 19, 2023 at 9:13 pm
At the moment we are at about a 70% chance. If 2024 elections are a repeat of 2020 and 2022 that goes to about 95%.
Alan Rosenblith
August 19, 2023 at 9:18 pm
I can’t even begin to describe all the ways she is wrong
Carlos Dlt
August 20, 2023 at 6:59 pm
We shouldnt have regulations on social media algorithms. It could lead to suppression of you
a900rr1
August 20, 2023 at 7:01 pm
The problem is that immigrants come flooding from other countries because of their corrupt political systems that have robbed them…and want to fundamentally change America into the countries they came from. And when our country is fundamentally changed…where are they going to migrate to then?
There needs to be a movement to keep the US Constitution whole.
And that can’t happen making the govt. bigger and taking what’s produced by the productive and given to those that don’t produce.
MA C
August 20, 2023 at 7:08 pm
I question whether she questioned ex-Sinn Fein members in Northern Ireland, because her pronunciation of “Sinn Fein” is shockingly bad LMAO 🤣😂
Thomaz Santana
August 20, 2023 at 7:11 pm
We desperately need stronger laws to keep religion out of political office… it belongs in the privacy of homes and should abruptly end outside a private home.
lastpme
August 20, 2023 at 7:20 pm
After 6 Jan 21 and people still support Trump so passionately anything could happen.
Jody
August 20, 2023 at 9:03 pm
Yes, it could be worse. Imagine reelecting a totally duplicitous incompetent like Joe Biden who has foreign bribe money sticking out his yin-yang that he, along with Hunter and Brother Jim, got for selling his VP office to shady Eastern European oligarchs and Chinese businessmen with ties to the Communist Chinese intelligence services (and they lost their minds over a Hillary/FBI/Big Media scam claiming Trump was a foreign asset for Russia??!!). Imagine reelecting a man who is now on course to become historically the worst president in American history to date — even worse than James Buchanan who may have done nothing as the country plunged into civil war in 1860, but at least he wasn’t on the take. And just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, the Democrats have Gavin Newsom who oversaw the destruction of San Francisco and much of California in the batter’s box warming up with Kackling Kamala Harris throwing in the bullpen hoping they’ll bring her in for late relief innings if Joe should fall over on his face once too often.
Stoney Harmon
August 20, 2023 at 7:30 pm
Sounds like she was trained by the CIA.
Someone should tell her the US was never a democracy. It was supposed to be a Republic, but turned into a Plutocracy.
Yithmaster
August 20, 2023 at 7:42 pm
But remember that the great replacement is just a conspiracy theory
Sing It Out!
August 20, 2023 at 7:48 pm
Oh, Hog wash.
Yeti
August 20, 2023 at 7:53 pm
Remember when TED talks used to be good?
Ernest Heau
August 20, 2023 at 7:57 pm
Aside from one single person we need not name, the biggest legal threat to democracy in the US is the current composition of the Supreme Court. They are determined to discard any laws that come up for their decision which helps people who belong to a minority.
Jody
August 20, 2023 at 8:40 pm
??? Do you mean we should keep trying to stack the Court with justices until there are enough leftists who will rule Constitutional any insanity the Democrats are pushing but can’t get passed democratically through Congress until the SCOTUS is just another corrupt institution controlled by the Democratic Party? Is that what you are referring to as the greatest legal threat?
Truman49
August 20, 2023 at 8:00 pm
We are already at war, but it hasn’t transitioned from gorilla fighting to all out war.
Kenneth Snyder
August 20, 2023 at 8:02 pm
Oh, well I’m good except for one thing that United States of America is not a democracy but a republic, if you can keep it. Benjamin Franklin
Joe Weis
August 20, 2023 at 8:13 pm
THE GOP REWARD THE RICH AND PUNISH THE POOR !!!
MissAwa
August 20, 2023 at 8:19 pm
Have you ever heard about Edward Snowden?🤣
kooltonez jack
August 20, 2023 at 8:22 pm
Manage the transition to achieve a gold standard for all involved. No losers when cooperation interjects. In big pictures and little pictures alike (this one’s big right). I love helpful people that include everyone’s favorable outcome. Success breeds success more easily. I love her…thanks Barb (“Barb” …as if I know her 😅) 👼🏾 I love you all 👼🏾
Nicolo Schultz
August 20, 2023 at 8:39 pm
Lol. Yeah, climate change is what’s driving migration into the US.😂
UPstater5.9
August 20, 2023 at 8:50 pm
It’s almost like the govt and social media companies (same difference) have been pushing and pushing and pushing with no end in sight. Constantly censoring conservatives while letting leftists reign free. The time is coming soon, get prepared!
Cris
August 20, 2023 at 8:52 pm
There will be no civil war in the US because most of us common folk are beginning to understand who our real enemies are; both parties who are trying to make us hate each other even though we suffer so much
F.F. Peters
August 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
Speaker should have been vetted. No fact checker at TED? Perhaps co-opted by the CIA? Oh, she was selling the book back in 2021. Hmmmmm.
John Brown
August 20, 2023 at 9:14 pm
Walter’s solution for degrading democracy and fostering identity politics is to (a) degrade democracy by censoring free speech and (b) promote identity politics. The very things she says causes civil wars. This has got to be one of the most ridiculous TED talks I’ve seen.
Eleanor Harrison
August 20, 2023 at 9:15 pm
already happening with the republicans and democrats that is the civil war among themselves
Aaron Hill
August 20, 2023 at 9:18 pm
Democrat propaganda
msd
August 20, 2023 at 9:21 pm
She seems to be really enjoying this.
Pépé the real frog
August 20, 2023 at 9:25 pm
She’s a specialist?! Of the left objectives it seems…
Ann Stoddard
August 20, 2023 at 9:28 pm
How about how the media spouts sophistry (incindiary) lies like MSDNC, CNN, The Atlantic, NYT, Wapo and so many other MSM.
Pablo Ramon
August 21, 2023 at 7:25 pm
Shin Fine…who?
Anna Warner
August 21, 2023 at 7:27 pm
Not a chance.
Dirk Gonthier
August 21, 2023 at 7:32 pm
This talk is only applicable in the USA. In the rest of the world history weighs often (too) heavy.
Lori W
August 21, 2023 at 7:34 pm
Gee thanks Barbara for adding to all the fearmongering and misinformation ! And how much did you get paid for this appearance and BS speech? No thanks!
Shazam Shazam (Shazam)
August 21, 2023 at 7:34 pm
Our business community isn’t demanding change to more equality but have demanded and been given more power to increase inequality and suppress wages and limit individual rights.
Our business community have simply bought the politicians who changed the laws to use mass incarceration and limiting education and allow discrimination and promote division and they do through all media now in play in the U.S..
Steven Whitaker
August 21, 2023 at 7:37 pm
Does the progressive left (yes, she is) ever look in the mirror? I try to be even handed in my evaluations of political positions, but I don’t see how it’s possible to describe the two greatest factors in predicting civil was as broken democracies and identity politics, and then make everyone of your examples and concerns come from the political right. Identity & grievance politics have been a bastion of the political left for my entire lifetime, and still are today, and I would say both side of the political aisle have worked hard at weakening our democracy. I just can’t take anyone seriously who claims expertise then follows that up with “my side good, your side bad”.
Mark Jury
August 21, 2023 at 7:38 pm
Never trust the CIA. They and Hillary lied.
Daniel Hatfield
August 21, 2023 at 7:38 pm
It took about 90 seconds of her speaking to figure out what side of the Isle she’s on.
R L
August 21, 2023 at 7:51 pm
I dont need no civil war, feeds the rich while it buries the poor. GNR
Johnny Bohemo's Potato Orchestra
August 21, 2023 at 7:58 pm
Almost as condescending as Harris. Almost as abrasive as AOC. Almost as platitudinous as a CNN anchor
Kerri Kirk @ Adornament Designs
August 21, 2023 at 7:58 pm
There is no hope for the working class in the US today
Jon Little
August 21, 2023 at 8:00 pm
If we are going to rely on business to “save” us, we are eff’d – who benefited directly as the working class were decimated? This is intelligent analysis? Explains all the CIA’s failures since its founding …
Daniel Hightower
August 21, 2023 at 8:01 pm
I think she’s a recruiter for hydra.
Pass.
inedpavel
August 21, 2023 at 8:04 pm
At around 12min 40 sec – “To prevent civil war … we have to … fight for real democracy …”.
May I suggest that when campaigning for peaceful mean people should avoid using the verb “to fight” when they mean “to strive”.
Simon Daly
August 21, 2023 at 8:27 pm
Easy for CIA to predict civil wars when they have a hand in most or all
Tony Offshore
August 21, 2023 at 8:41 pm
My body is ready. Our own government is actively trying to destory the founding stock of this country.
Woodrow Barstad
August 21, 2023 at 8:48 pm
$$$ & Identity politic “constructs” ie (cultural, Poli- religious , & economic, constructs)…it was obvious that NAFTA will always divide the masses. NAFTA deeply wounded the American Middle Class it was to the benefit of international interests (the few financial instigators, at the top falsely claiming “free trade”.
sun dog
August 21, 2023 at 8:58 pm
this lady is an expert on civil war in poor counties she needs to get some data on first world civil wars in modern history, oh right there are none.
sun dog
August 21, 2023 at 9:01 pm
rich people run the US, please spare us the fake fear of civil war there is zero chance the billionaires will allow the chaos of civil war
Tavis Weeden
August 21, 2023 at 9:03 pm
I agree that social media, and corporate media/Hollywood as a whole are at the center of this problem. They amplify the voices of the most divisive people Left and Right, who drown out reasonable Americans who have more in common than they know. They create the divide by design because it generates attention and the resulting income. Americans don’t want war – they want to be heard. Even if that means it offends somebody. I choose to follow Martin Luther King Jr. and judge my fellow American by the content of their character. I suggest we all follow his leadership
walton pate
August 21, 2023 at 9:15 pm
Does this woman hear what is coming out of her own mouth. She is wrong about everything, how did she get a job by not fact checking.
Sumner Waite
August 21, 2023 at 9:18 pm
Trump won. Lady.
White Shoal Light
August 21, 2023 at 9:20 pm
I bet she is triple vaxxed
Buzz H
August 21, 2023 at 9:24 pm
As a former Republican, what concerns me most is that Republicans blame liberals for their own actions and their followers blindly listen. For instance, both NAFTA and the China trade bill were overwhelmingly supported by Republicans and the majority of opposition came from Democrats. Yet Republicans blindly believe that it was the opposite. And this willing ignorance makes them prone to unprovoked violence.
r John
August 21, 2023 at 9:27 pm
Actually you did just advocate to censor free speech.
Dark~Skye
August 22, 2023 at 5:40 pm
Most of the civil wars this WEF stooge is talking about, was most likely started by the CIA. When someone is calling for censorship or suppression of free speech, know that they are the enemies of freedom.
Rich Mr. Krabbs
August 22, 2023 at 5:46 pm
No I’d a be an extermination, one side doesnt like guns. Jokes or facts aside the people dont want civil war. it’s the people who put themselves above everyone else who fears a revolution. But another wrong concept. they just have money which is only earned like that because they keep for themselves vs pay the people properly for makeing them all that money. All that’s gunna happen is americans doing what we do find the baddies and delete. Ya ya americans are the baddies.. not true when freedom is a thing it takes time to gaurrentee who the deserves cement shoes. When the sneak into the goverment its takes longer to do it right. But sure enough they wont last that long. Just our short attention thinking it’s been so long. The enemies are now apparent and their coup failed😈 we are just waiting . Justice is coming
Indomitus Veritas
August 22, 2023 at 6:28 pm
For a woman that makes grandiose claims about her experience and knowlegde of the American political system she made a very embarrasing and naive mistake; America is a constitutional federal republic not a democracy.
Terry Mc
August 22, 2023 at 6:48 pm
got that wrong the climate refugees are going to be Americans.
R2RHiker
August 22, 2023 at 7:02 pm
Fight for democracy…as in mob rule. The USA is a constitutional republic.
Garrett Riegg
August 22, 2023 at 7:03 pm
So the CIA hires experts like this woman to look at civil wars. Sorry I don’t know her qualifications. Fairly good diagnosis, but a clueless, simple-minded solution ! . She seems to know little about economics, law or politics. She wants us to “not amplify ” hate speech. Who determines that kind of censnorship?
Then she suggests more social welfare. White males are not upset by the lack of a minimum wage or minimal health insurance. And the minimum wage only applies to 1% to 2% of workers ! Such laws destroy good, entry-level jobs that poor people need.
How about just having a government that does not favor the lazy, the less competent, the minorities, the self-proclaimed victims; the majority females and the partially disabled over better qualified , males, caucasions and the hard-working middle class. Compassion can become a crutch. All my drug addicted friends survive on numerous welfare programs. $20 billion for the homeless in the last decade mostly made the problem worse !
When people see the federal prosecutors and the top FBI colluding and lying to favor Hunter Biden and his $ billions; and take down Trump for a poor choice of words or errors of judgment, then some people start to hate the government and think of protesting and even violence. In nearly every civil war this is a feeling of corruption and untrustworthy government. It is not just materialism, it is also morality that brings good changes and sometimes that goes awry into civil war that we try to avoid.
John Narez
August 22, 2023 at 7:11 pm
Let everyone reading this consider deeply this Scripture: “….and all the paths of (God’s ) wisdom are peace.” ( Prov 3:17b)
Manatee 7
August 22, 2023 at 7:13 pm
The next civil war in America will be started by rich elites who will spread propaganda and brainwash the uneducated. The reason for the next civil war in America is the elites feel like their losing their power(wealth) to the working class so they spread lies that turn Americans on each other based on identity vs ideology😢😢😢
Manatee 7
August 22, 2023 at 7:20 pm
Reforms based on profits are like applying a small bandage to a gushing open wound. It will last only for a short time😅.
J Adams
August 22, 2023 at 7:28 pm
*The Patriot Act?* 😂
Bob Dine
August 22, 2023 at 7:44 pm
Dont trust someone who was on a CIA task force monitoring the world for civil wars probabilities because they usually start them😂 she is a civilian 😎Yeah right
Robert Yeats
August 22, 2023 at 7:49 pm
I believe that it was trump that said ” lots of money in chaos.”
Timberrr
August 22, 2023 at 7:53 pm
Sharia Law is incompatible with US Constitutional Law. Regular Union wages will drop to “a higher minimum wage” as the government promotes immigration. Wages will flatten, promoting ‘equity’, as they are in Cuba where doctors are paid 20 cents per hour. Artificial Intelligence will eliminate sales people and secretaries. Why would the USA need more High School or uneducated immigrants to take what jobs?
The idea that laws can just make religions compatible is utopian folly. Religions will have to be eliminated as per the Soviet Union or today’s China. This is the part she is not divulging.❤
Muslims are in fact Conservatives. They do not go along with Rainbow Flag activism. As the browning of America progresses, civil conflict will rise.❤
Kevin Robins
August 22, 2023 at 8:02 pm
This is hilarious. It’s no wonder she’s struggling not to laugh:
1 – The CIA can’t gather data in US citizens, but you, as a private contractor for the CIA, have that data… and where did you get it from? Ahahaha
2 – The CIA being able to predict which country will have a civil war is like me being able to predict what I’ll have for lunch… it’s my choice so obviously I can predict it.
3 – Sorry, did she just say the Sunni’s started the war in Iraq? Errr, I think it’s pronounced “Americans”
4 – Gotta love the idea that people defending their way of life are the ones that start civil wars… How about it’s the people attacking that way of life that started it?
5 – The US already is a multi-ethnic multi-religious democracy, as she herself just stated. Oh and we can all see a civil war brewing in the US and we can all see it is the Democrats identity politics that does it. Just wait and see what happens with the currently silent BLM in the run up to the next election.
6 – Oh of course, the real message here, it’s Trump, racists and climate change… obviously. The answer? Shadow banning people who say things we don’t agree with… yeah, I’m sure that will help because that tactic has worked out so well for the US so far.
Tre' Harris
August 22, 2023 at 8:15 pm
I call b.s. on the “Russian Collusion Election Meddling”. Russians spent $12 million on Facebook ads.. Hillary paid half the fine for the Steele Dossier (false accusation of Trump’s ‘Russian Collusion’), ie she paid $6 million and DNC the other $6 million. A Senate campaign can reach $80-110 million!!! The 2020 Election was *stolen* by Big Tech, the DOJ, the Media, and the US Intel Community. She doesn’t seem to want to mention that! Walters here should add a 3rd category to monitor for civil wars: “People Losing Faith in the Election Process.” Then she lapses into the trite ‘climate change’ arguments. Bin Laden was rich, had great education, many wives and kids, air conditioning, etc but he still chose evil. Same with Saddam Hussein and sons. Sad to see a *researcher* give in to their political bias. Thanks for wasting my time.
Tre' Harris
August 22, 2023 at 8:18 pm
At 11:00 she goes into censoring free speech. Wow…
Tre' Harris
August 22, 2023 at 8:23 pm
And she ends with “being brave enough…to fight for Democracy”. Ok, America is NOT a democracy!!! We are a democratic republic that honors rule of law and the the search for truth with ALL being equal under the law. A democracy is two wolves and a sheep arguing over what is for dinner.
Darryl White
August 22, 2023 at 8:30 pm
This woman lied repeatedly before she got to the real topic of her talk: internet censorship. I assume she works for the CIA. Propaganda.
Darryl White
August 22, 2023 at 8:35 pm
She can prevaricate and mislead on YouTube and it’s fine, but when someone tells the truth that our government wants to stifle–like Scott Ritter–, then his videos are removed with his channel. This is what she’s arguing for–something that’s already happening.
Alan Snyder
August 22, 2023 at 8:36 pm
It seems to me that the liberal wing of the Democratic party is pushing “identity politics” much more than anyone else.
Maybe they should stop.
Ayrton Senna fan
August 22, 2023 at 8:39 pm
1st part was kind of interesting and insightful, 2nd had a neolib/WEFfy vibe to it. Who decides what “conspiracy theories” are whether they should or should not be muzzled? Freedom is an illusion with the “othering” of unconventional viewpoints, this woman sounds somewhat like she is advocating for a “Demolition Man” like society with “freedom” allowed within a strict set of pretty arbitrary guardrails.
And if people want to limit immigration, which I am not strongly in favour of but can understand it, then so be it. Closing the Mexico border for example seems like a pretty reasonable thing to me, at least illegal immigration should be curtailed even if treating the underlying causes still needs to be addressed. That’s the kind of view she’s looking to shut down it seems to me.
Pat Brennan
August 22, 2023 at 8:48 pm
Trump knew a long time ago that the Republican party was in decline or at least he was told that, so he decided that he would make it his own party which is now Maga. If he had won in 2020 the U.S would have been his for the taking and the constitution would have been dissolved promptly. This is why he has done the unthinkable to regain power to fulfill his sinister agenda, but Democracy stood in the way and prevented the fall of the country from happening. Keep Democracy, stay strong.
David Bourgeois
August 22, 2023 at 8:58 pm
The first oligarch we lock up and lock out will be a good start.
Stephen Goodfellow
August 22, 2023 at 8:59 pm
2016 – The Russians, huh? The same Russians that planted rhe Biden laptop? And you never stop to wonder why so many have so little faith in our ‘security’ systems?
It’s because we are continuously lied to.
John Orr
August 22, 2023 at 9:09 pm
Great speech..cogent and concise.
Guitarzen
August 22, 2023 at 9:11 pm
Hilarious disinformation by a full-on leftist using a leftist platform. Everyone knows the 2016 russia collusion is a lie now, but hear is TED pushing that failed narrative still. Same for the rest. If you have a leftist/commie regime investigating their opposition they are always going to find the results they want people to hear. She claims to be a citizen there fore she can investigate people that the CIA won’t because of ethics. Therefore she has no ethics. If i just dig a little I’m sure I will find she is fully aligned with leftist causes, etc. and is completely biased beyond what is evident here.
James Stripling
August 22, 2023 at 9:25 pm
Headed? It’s been in a civil war for over 2 decades already.
Gary Woj
August 23, 2023 at 4:50 pm
This has nothing to do with race, it has to do with communist-minded WEF being in control of our governments. Since you’re talking about the USA, look at Trump supporters, they are Black, Hispanic, native, white, and you name it, every race. The party that has the most white support is actually your Democrats, who are supported by white liberals that are leaning so far left they are embracing communist China, and Klaus Schawbs WEF. They are trampling on your constitution. In Canada, we have a puppet PM with Trudeau; he doesn’t represent Canada at all. China has interfered in our elections to support him and even donated a million to his foundation. He and his cabinet abstained from a vote in our House of Commons to declare that China was committing genocide against the ethnic group called the Wegers (sp). We also have a government of China police stations in Canada now that are bullying the ethnic Chinese immigrants that came here. And the Trudeau government isn’t doing anything to stop this. In fact, one of the Liberal MPs met secretly with Chinese Secret Service agents. We saw what happened with the truckers convoy, our government used the Emergencies Act, which was formerly called the War Measures act, to suspend all rights and freedoms, take political prisoners, and freeze bank accounts of peaceful citizens who did nothing but donate to the cause, all done without a court order. Our PM fired the justice Minister for standing up for the integrity of the justice system that he wanted to interfere in. Canada has already fallen, we are living under a puppet dictatorship. Trudeau, many years ago said he “admires China’s Basic dictatorship,” and he followed his puppet masters to turn our nation into a dictatorship right now. He’s even been censoring our news media and the internet. We are becoming more and more like Communist China every day. I meet people every day from all races and religions who are upset with this government. Who can’t believe how far our nation has fallen. Some hope that the USA will liberate us by force if need be. However, looking south we see the USA is also falling, as Biden as well, appears to be a puppet under foreign control as well. It appears that humanity is headed towards dark ages. I wonder if humanity will survive?
patrick anderson
August 23, 2023 at 4:54 pm
Civil war against whom?
What would the sides be?
Would it be political, economically or social driven?
Here in merika….its just talk especially knowing there is none to lead and just a minimal that would follow.
So whatever would lead to such an event it would have to HUGE.
Therefore our upcoming civil war would economically based.
The havenots rising up against the haves.
Its time leaders advise the public to buy BTC and PM.
patrick anderson
August 23, 2023 at 4:56 pm
Soooo shes saying the rnc will start the civil war?¿??? Makes sence since there loosing power.
Robert Melrose
August 23, 2023 at 5:13 pm
Not surprising to hear from a sanctioned TED talk that the ills of America are shared jointly between white males and business.
Me Rowsh
August 23, 2023 at 5:24 pm
Your information about Russia interfering with US election via democrats propaganda in 2016 is false. You are not informed, if you were, you would have mentioned about UNI-Party!
Belu L
August 23, 2023 at 5:30 pm
When the Left said “Minor attracted persons” they signed me up to gladly participate and give my life in a hypothetical Civil War ||
Liquid Sunshine
August 23, 2023 at 5:32 pm
Excuse me but your Point is…?
Roy Nelson
August 23, 2023 at 5:46 pm
This is not truth.
Ben Denison
August 23, 2023 at 5:57 pm
Total baloney.
Blaming those issues on the right is ridiculous. The left and it’s political cronies are the authoritarians creating this chaos.
Citizen Charles
August 23, 2023 at 6:13 pm
Capitalism is doubtless a strong motivator for peace through commerce. It is likely the number one reason the Soviet Union collapsed. But colorblind, non-ethnic meritocracy is the way to ensure that the most qualified are the leaders, enhanced by a free and unbiased press. The education system, automation, and entitlement system in the US has undermined the middle class, and without a vibrant middle class with agreed upon cultural norms, we can expect conflict. Furthermore, the black population is the the ethnic minority that is being displaced by illegal immigration, poor education, and failing cultural norms, and is the locus of current violence and criminality. I believe that Ms. Walter is mistaken in her implication that it is the white population that is threatened by “replacement theory” fears. It is the black population that is fomenting hatred for the immigrant population that will result in internal violence. This is most clearly seen with the alignment of asian and hispanic voters with the Republican and Conservative candidates that has occurred in the last two voting cycles, and the BLM riots that are a symptom of black disenfranchisement. She further, misreads South Africa’s instability, whose agriculture is at the precipice of nationalization and famine due to unqualified leadership and racial envy.
Computer Nerd
August 23, 2023 at 6:20 pm
The problem with civil war in the U.S. is how do you tell who’s on what side?
Most citizens do not have their affiliation tattooed on their forehead.
Those wearing red hats will eventually dwindle down and you won’t be able to know who to shoot at.
Henry Leung
August 23, 2023 at 6:51 pm
It come down to who control the online algorithm. I’m afraid if the algorithm is controlled by the government, it is 1984.
excidedous
August 23, 2023 at 6:54 pm
The “2nd amendment folks” vs the “anti-firearm” crowd. Should be interesting. I wonder who I should bet on.🤔
Norman Smith
August 23, 2023 at 7:04 pm
Our credit rating has also been downgraded twice due to political debt ceiling brinksmanship. First by S&P during the financial crisis in 2011 and again by Fitch more recently citing our inability to govern ourselves and our high level of national debt due to insufficient tax revenue. Both times it was the result of a conservative power play against a democratic president. President Obama wanted to recover from the financial crisis which became agonizingly slow due to trickle down monetary policy, and Biden wanted to recover from CoVid lockdown and to rebuild our infrastructure while creating jobs as interest rates rise.
Richard Price
August 23, 2023 at 7:19 pm
Her solution is to turn this country away from one based on induvial freedom and capitalism and replacing it with a Marxist system. I was married to a Russian woman who had left the Soviet Union before the collapse. She had been born in 1940 and lived through not only Stalinism but what came after much of the things done by the communists. She actually had been a Russian Olympic athlete in the 1960s and after an injury became a very prominent civil engineer there even getting to know Mr. Gorbachev very well. I will never forget when one day she said to me ” communism gives everyone an equal share of nothing but poverty and misery”
Sonya
August 23, 2023 at 7:53 pm
The algorithms of social media must be neutral. Favoring one side, or view point will start a civil war, and such a war would be justified.
Sonya
August 23, 2023 at 7:59 pm
If a civil war were to break out in America, think about who would win. I’m siding with the winners.
Joe DiMeo
August 23, 2023 at 8:23 pm
Defund the politicians!
Lazarus 1
August 23, 2023 at 8:34 pm
Thank you, this was very well presented. I only wish it was longer. There are other factors involved too tho, especially human nature, which is one of the things we seem to know least about. Especially where it intersects with the natural world – is the most dangerous. Humans are not autonomous from nature. That’s a delusion of modern society. And in the case of the playbook for the US going down in flames, it’s not simply in the hands of Donald Trump: but he appears to actually BE the playbook. He’s Trump.
Leod McAbre
August 23, 2023 at 8:44 pm
Good thing the USA is a REPUBLIC.
Peter Wade
August 23, 2023 at 8:46 pm
Talking about anocracy , we know who she is voting for. A government which is abusively and cunningly using the law to eliminate any opposition. Come on! Who is laying down all the conditions for a civil war, cornering and threatening opponents?
Mark Butler
August 23, 2023 at 8:47 pm
The ones with the most money rule and it must be that there are enough good guys in this mix that keep the bad guys from bringing us to our knees in a life of slavery.
Tom Dockery
August 23, 2023 at 8:58 pm
April 12,1861-Neptune enters Aries-Fort Sumter begins Civil War I
Mar.30,2025-Neptune enters Aries -???????????????????????????
Dan Wint
August 23, 2023 at 9:19 pm
Could have fooled me, Humans ya, less than 150 years ago in this country, people were burning people alive, less than 500 years ago, people were cutting alive1 peoples hearts out, since man first apperared, in known history, were just as barbaric as 10,000 years ago, we will never change, Civil War, it just reduces the population a little.
Canoe Doc
August 23, 2023 at 9:27 pm
The globalist members of the WEF would love to see civil war and economic and social chaos engulf Western democracies. They use captured social and corporate media to fan the flames of the culture war, along with pandemics, inflation, open borders, and climate hysteria to destabilize, impoverish, and enslave the middle class, which they see as the greatest threat to the creation of their AI utopia; sans “useless eaters”.