^Are you asking whether a tremendously wealthy people, absorbed by leisure pastimes that include getting froth-mouthed over political stuff on Twitter, with a ton to lose fiscally, with no stomach for actual violence, whose chief mantra is anti-civil society individualism, where pockets of faux discontent are geographically disparate and whose slogan is a malapropism at a stock car race, is going to destroy itself via civil war?
Then, of course the answer is no.
Ironically, given your last post, egregious wealth disparity (not unlike what was seen in Bourbon France) is the only thing that has a chance to overcome mobilization obstacles in the US. But race still divides.
I’m not really saying anything. In a way I could imagine one happening, but it’s just hard to see given the lack of historical precedent. I was just wondering if I missed a good example.
I think the bigger issue is what happens if there’s ever a serious economic downturn. Then the latent fissures get serious
No Nintendo, no stability - as Barrington Moore might say.
Those countries are not wealthy by modern standards. Lots of hunger and low life expectancy. No one was playing video games and thinking about the possibility of retirement.
I am asking if a wealthy industrial state has ever relapsed into a serious Civil War.
We had one 12 years ago.
I’m not really saying anything. In a way I could imagine one happening, but it’s just hard to see given the lack of historical precedent. I was just wondering if I missed a good example.
I think the bigger issue is what happens if there’s ever a serious economic downturn. Then the latent fissures get serious
We had one 12 years ago.
I’m not really saying anything. In a way I could imagine one happening, but it’s just hard to see given the lack of historical precedent. I was just wondering if I missed a good example.
I think the bigger issue is what happens if there’s ever a serious economic downturn. Then the latent fissures get serious
And racial tension went way up. 1905 before 1917
Racial tension went way up b/c some people couldn't deal with Obama being President.
We had one 12 years ago.
I’m not really saying anything. In a way I could imagine one happening, but it’s just hard to see given the lack of historical precedent. I was just wondering if I missed a good example.
I think the bigger issue is what happens if there’s ever a serious economic downturn. Then the latent fissures get seriousAnd racial tension went way up. 1905 before 1917
So was this thread started to discredit the idea that a civil war can occur in the "rich" USA? But much of the USA looks like a palace built upon a dung heap. When compassionate dentists in some benighted part of the country hold a free weekend portable clinic out a van, huge numbers of Americans with terrible teeth and no dental insurance show up in droves. It might as well be a United Nations food drop in South Sudan.
Wait, huh? Why is $10K in current dollars the absolutely arbitrary cutoff? Wealth should be understood as relative to the period.
Darleen's right. By most estimates, France was the wealthiest country in the world (certainly in Europe) in 1789.
The UK was about the eighth or tenth wealthiest country in the world during the War of the Roses.Because a population of illiterate 20 year olds with low income behaves nothing like a wealthy, old, fat population that’s why.
Okay, but decaying empiezan behave nothing like stable rich countries either.
So was this thread started to discredit the idea that a civil war can occur in the "rich" USA? But much of the USA looks like a palace built upon a dung heap. When compassionate dentists in some benighted part of the country hold a free weekend portable clinic out a van, huge numbers of Americans with terrible teeth and no dental insurance show up in droves. It might as well be a United Nations food drop in South Sudan.
LOL, sounds like you know the literature.