Scholars said the same thing about 1920-1932 Germany! At that time Germany was the most educated, most technologically advanced, and most liberal democracy in the world!
Scholars said the same thing about 1920-1932 Germany! At that time Germany was the most educated, most technologically advanced, and most liberal democracy in the world!
True. We'd have to read Walter's book for ourselves. But we already have alarms sounded and the information to take action to prevent a bloody civil war by doing our part to wage the ideological one.
Ellie, I promise this book is worth your time. While HCR mostly discusses US history around our Civil War and into Jim Crow and into the 50's and 60's and today, Dr. Walter reviews the slow decade of sliding from democracy to A-nocracy, to civil war and Authoritarianism in Yugo, Northern Ireland, Sira Lanka, Philippines, Ukraine, Russia, China, Burma/Myanmar, India, Georgia, and other countries. She also explains in researched detail differences in each, the US, Japan, Switzerland, and other democracies and several in betweens. An overriding theme in each case study country from interviews and observations, and what I think are living through here, is that these contributors like "factions" and "militia's" grow very slowly at first, so slow many don't recognize what is happening, until its too late. Reading this book, gives terms for what is happening. The terms repeat and the common themes put together create a repeatable pattern.
Scholars said the same thing about 1920-1932 Germany! At that time Germany was the most educated, most technologically advanced, and most liberal democracy in the world!
True. We'd have to read Walter's book for ourselves. But we already have alarms sounded and the information to take action to prevent a bloody civil war by doing our part to wage the ideological one.
Ellie, I promise this book is worth your time. While HCR mostly discusses US history around our Civil War and into Jim Crow and into the 50's and 60's and today, Dr. Walter reviews the slow decade of sliding from democracy to A-nocracy, to civil war and Authoritarianism in Yugo, Northern Ireland, Sira Lanka, Philippines, Ukraine, Russia, China, Burma/Myanmar, India, Georgia, and other countries. She also explains in researched detail differences in each, the US, Japan, Switzerland, and other democracies and several in betweens. An overriding theme in each case study country from interviews and observations, and what I think are living through here, is that these contributors like "factions" and "militia's" grow very slowly at first, so slow many don't recognize what is happening, until its too late. Reading this book, gives terms for what is happening. The terms repeat and the common themes put together create a repeatable pattern.