“The US today is solidly in the #anocracy zone. […] We are no longer considered, by any group that studies #democracy, a full democracy. We are in this middle zone.”
“In the UK, there's going to be 30 gun deaths this year. There's 120 a day in the US. So, since #CharlieKirk's assassination two days ago, there's already been eight times the number of gun deaths in the #US that there will be all year in the UK.”
— Barbara F. Walter on the Prof G. podcast
Recalling TruthTelling
When you should have been listening to find some understanding and didn't. Maybe it was the DEI thing that you did not know about? Perhaps. Too late ? 🤔 Hard for me to digest that 36 years of my life pretty much went down the drain. I was unable to save enough of them.
#USpol #Blacktalkradio #Anocracy
Professor #BarbaraFWalter, a renowned expert on #CivilWars around the world, warns that the #UnitedStates meets key criteria for nations heading toward major #PoliticalViolence. We ignore the warning signs at our own peril, according to the #author of #HowCivilWarsStartAndHowToStopThem. #AmericanHistory shows that the fight to save #Democracy will have to come from the bottom up, Walter says. “Protest and peaceful resistance works,” she adds. “Don't voluntarily comply with orders that are illegal. Don't help #DonaldTrump implement his agenda–don’t preemptively comply.”
#Anocracy - Anocracy, or semi-democracy, is a form of government that is loosely defined as part democracy and part #Dictatorship, or as a "regime that mixes democratic with autocratic features". Another definition classifies anocracy as "a regime that permits some means of participation through opposition group behaviour, but that has incomplete development of mechanisms to redress grievances."
#CivilWar #TrumpRegime #TrumpCoup #Fascism #DemocracyVsAutocracy #Autocracy
Why are US tax forms so complicated? Stuff the public service, their corporations want it that way. #anocracy
Background: still no remedy for Intuit's success at lobbying to kill any and all tax reform measures that allow free, easy filing directly with the IRS. https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free
"#Anocracy, or semi-democracy, is a form of #government that is loosely defined as part #democracy and part #dictatorship, or as a "regime that mixes #democratic with #autocratic features".
-- @wikipedia
Is the #US Headed Towards Another Civil War?
-- Barbara F. Walter
What are the generator functions for civil war in the digital age, and how do we prevent them? This week on Your Undivided Attention, we're joined by Barbara F. Walter — one of the world's leading experts on civil wars, political violence, and terrorism, and the author of How Civil Wars Start: And How To Stop Them.
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