Barbara F. Walter

By 2050, the World Bank predicts, over 140 million “climate migrants” will likely flee Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America.

It’s when a group looks into the future and sees nothing but additional pain that they start to see violence as their only path to progress.

The 1948 elections for a new assembly in Algeria was so heavily and openly rigged by French settlers to guarantee their victory that the phrase election algerienne became synonymous with unfair elections

Violent extremists can also take advantage of peaceful protest movements to sow chaos. Erica Chenoweth calls these people
violent conflict entrepreneurs.

If a leader believed that granting independence to one group would lead others to make their own demands—setting off a secessionist chain reaction—then fighting would help deter future challenges.

If I’m YouTube and I want you to watch more, I’m always going to steer you toward Crazytown

Though international observers deemed the 2016 election free, they decided it was not entirely fair:

America had become an “imperial presidency”—
as presidential historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., once put it—with its president ruling by executive order rather than consulting with Congress.

But instead of saving their country, they degraded democracy even further.

The United States is an anocracy for the first time in more than two hundred years. Let that sink in.