How Civil Wars Start: The Pelosi Attack and the Rise of Extremism in the U.S. | Amanpour and Company

Democracy in America is balanced on a knife edge, says political scientist Barbara F. Walter, but it may not be too late to rescue it. Walter is the author of "How Civil Wars Start" and she speaks with Hari Sreenivasan about how America can prevent another one from starting.
Originally aired on November 1, 2022.
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[@russellberwick3440]

One way to start a civil war, is to not punish the leaders of an failed coup, which is something every other country knows.

[@nareshb1807]

Absolutely 💯

[@johnbrown1851]

You have said it so well, Russell. The light sentences given to the insurrectionists only encourages them.

[@Erin-Thor]

They threw Hitler in prison, and look what happened there.

[@bcconman1]

Unfortunately, another way is To arrest and charge a political leader who attempted a coup.

[@DR-hy6is]

@@bcconman1 One way trip to the moon for that son of a bitch.

[@jonathonlyon8797]

Another major factor: Ultra right wing libertarian billionaires deploying their practically limitless financial assets to back the movement of American society towards oligarchy and minority rule.

[@diffened]

Yes, and the never-ending propaganda has shown that it is very easy to control certain people.

[@ltdc426]

Soros and Bloomberg are not right wing anything.

[@SteveBrant55]

**cough** Elon Musk **cough** 🤮🤮

[@Youtuber-xs9cp]

Elon Musk is not right wing.. He is portraited as such because Twitter executives were especially Parag Agwaral and Vijaya Gadde were far left activist . Gadde is Telgu Indian he hates Hindu Majority for some reason. So she got her insecurities with her to the US

[@rosalietags]

@@KZbinr-xs9cp All news agencies need to run this article (interview), to explain how stacking the courts and gerrymandering has already occurred. The republicans have already mentioned cutting social security and medicare. This is for all generations to look at and pay attention to! Today I received a negative propaganda pamphlet against the Biden administration. It was paid for by "American First Legal Foundation" You must look this up! Big money supports this! Ads against opponents are paid for by corporations and interest groups.

[@bobblacka918]

QUOTE: "It's not the downtrodden that start civil wars. It's the privileged class that see their power diminishing." Well said and so true.

[@brynpookc1127]

It’s just like being back in my high school world history class in 1969. It’s not the most downtrodden who start the civil war, it’s those who had been close to power who see their privilege faltering.

[@kathleenmann7311]

You hit the nail… vote 🌊

[@unifiedvision999]

Right on the money, it is hhe descendants of the White Christian colonialists both here in North America and in Europe who are trying to maintain their dominance.

[@bradforward850]

Joke for the day: Republicans think Dems won't fight.

[@brynpookc1127]

@@EruditeBlueJackass Actually, we went through a whole list of civil wars (British, French, etc) and there were always markers that lined up leading to the uprising. Can’t remember them, but sounded like what Barbara was outlining.

[@brynpookc1127]

Wow! I’ve never had a comment get 116 likes before. More often none or one at the most.

[@thomasbyg4795]

Being disgruntled is one thing but being encouraged and validated by the powers that be is the thing...

[@Find-Your-Bliss-]

Stand back and Stand by… -DJT They heard him loud @ clear.

[@bobfrog4836]

Fox News

[@russellm2555]

Did you hashtag bunkerbaby like a good hypocrite

[@M.J.212]

@@bobfrog4836 Faux news, FOX *entertainment as per multiple litigations

[@teamamerica5987]

@@Find-Your-Bliss- Since when do protests have to be peaceful? CNN primetime.

[@CollinSamatas]

What a powerful interview. She needs to speak on the evening news; people in America desperately need this information nowadays

[@IWannatalkpodcast]

Half of America wants this 💯. If that J6 committee hasn't opened their eyes to Trump then they obviously don't care. They'll exchange democracy for $2 gas. Ask a Republican voter

[@currentconditions962]

It’s not going to be a difference to the Republican, actually I think this segment or her studies gave the Republicans side more ammo to continue towards a war, but it’s good to know exactly where we are heading.

[@Youtuber-xs9cp]

@@currentconditions962 The only war is gonnna in your panties "PMS" . There no gonna a civil war so get so Romantic about and get your panties wet.

[@LeoNegrete84]

Vote RED

[@oDubnobasswithmyhead]

Your not serious she can hardly keep a straight face at the bullshit she is spewing. I've never heard such utter tripe.

[@jhoodfysh]

WOW Barbara nailed; it especially at the end. A quote attributed to Edmund Burke 1729 - 1797 by John F. Kennedy during a speech to the Canadian Parliament in May of 1961: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

[@Astrobucks2]

lol. Barbara is a CIA shill. If you're listening to that criminal syndicate you're doing it wrong.

[@randyscrafts8575]

Unless the law prevents a people to do what's right.

[@hanszlh6522]

@@randyscrafts8575 - not ALL laws are 'legal' - do You think Putin's law to make it a 'Criminal Offence' to call a war "a War" is 'legal' ( ... under the Russian Costitution ??? ) ?

[@radagastbrown9001]

Someone let Merrick Garland know that.

[@darrylmars]

Short term: arrest traitors who already tried the violent overthrow of our nation. Actually have the rule of law. Long term: improve our pathetic education system & ban lying in news & political ads.

[@clarahorton4510]

Already started. Gerrymandering and stacked the courts.

[@stevechance150]

Republicans can't win without gerrymandering, and the MAGA crowd, and Evangelicals. They must have all three.

[@ws8080]

Gerrymandering is unfortunately done by all incumbents in both parties. Power in the US system is concentrated in the incumbents.

[@rogerpennel1798]

The GOP can count on Putin's help to launch a second coup if GOP candidates won't accept the midterm election results. The Russians announced last week that they were willing to help any group in the USA achieve secession if they wanted it. However, if the GOP encourages its white supremacist Trumpite terrorists to carry out MORE acts of terrorism against the government and people of the United States, not even the US military will be able to stop the American people from hanging the entire GOP by their heels like Mussolini and turning them into human pinatas. I encourage the GOP to put all of their faith in their failed ex-KGB agent Putin and his blustering buffoon of a puppet Trump. I wholeheartedly encourage the GOP to martyr themselves for Trump.

[@brynpookc1127]

@@ws8080 But more so by Repugs. They’re more single minded and focused. Democrats can’t seem to focus, spend more time “trying to get along” with each other. Reminds me of growing up in the Southern Baptists church, it was like a coming together of the “we don’t belong anywhere else” let’s try to make a go of it.

[@mik3ymomo]

Open borders, refusing to incarcerate violent offenders… the guy who attacked Paul Pelosi is a direct result of not dealing with illegal immigration. Guy shouldn’t have been here. He was also mentally ill… California has all the problems because it’s failed leftist policies.

[@carolynanderson5033]

I live in rural Maine. there are men practicing militia tactics in the woods here. they've been observed by locals with game cameras. scary

[@rosalietags]

All news agencies need to run this article (interview), to explain how stacking the courts and gerrymandering has already occurred. The republicans have already mentioned cutting social security and medicare. This is for all generations to look at and pay attention to! Today I received a negative propaganda pamphlet against the Biden administration. It was paid for by "American First Legal Foundation" You must look this up! Big money supports this! Ads against opponents are paid for by corporations and interest groups.

[@ksc743]

Hopefully the US Govt reads the comments lol. I still don't know how they dropped the ball at the Capitol.

[@savsmiles3042]

Lol

[@chrisnash430]

Meanwhile Antifa burns buildings and attacks people. Get your priorities straight honey.

[@tommybombadil8651]

A well regulated Militia

[@namzarf]

Nice interview. Regrettably, the guest didn't address the influence of foreign actors in this situation. They have been very successful in fomenting our turmoil. Not blaming them entirely, but it's a big problem and only getting worse.

[@camellia8625]

And pro right media like fox and largely unmoderated internet chat forums

[@Saanichian]

All this has been obvious for decades. It's been like watching a movie when you already know how it ends. A very long and frustrating movie.

[@suzannetevlin8439]

As a Canadian, I look towards our southern neighbours with fear and anxiety. Please, American friends, pull yourselves together. Consider the writing on the wall a warning, not a command..

[@kixigvak]

You mean because the guy who attacked Pelosi is Canadian?

[@fritterfoof5146]

It will only get worse first , we have about 30 million crazy people here .

[@deborahferguson1163]

You’re not the only one with fear and anxiety! Many in the US feel the same!

[@nosuchthing8]

Ty. It's crazy here

[@janiebuck2938]

Thank-you.

[@TjBruce817]

He wasn't radicalized by Online information alone, he, verbatim, was quoting Tucker Carlson from main stream media.

[@deborahlukovich2193]

We need to organize at a local and national level for workers and rights.

[@leafuller3153]

The next election should be guarded by the National Guard across the country to protect voters & election workers.

[@frankwilliams1967]

and protection from the neo-Bolshevik usurpers who stole the 2020 election

[@createone100]

Why isn’t Barbara Walter appearing before the U.S. Congress? Most informed people know already what she is saying, but ‘informed’ leaves out a heck of a lot of Americans. 🇨🇦

[@raymondmiller5098]

A portion of our problem is the two-party system. In a multi-party parliamentary system it would be easier to isolate the anti-democratic lunatics. However, in our system of only two major parties, the dangers are enormous. When one of the two parties becomes blatantly anti-democratic/anti-reality/anti-truthfulness - we are facing an existential threat.

[@russellm2555]

Russia Russia Russia

[@FirewindII]

@@russellm2555 No. Putin. The difference may be important.

[@russellm2555]

@@FirewindII Putin had nothing to do with a 'collusion' fabrication that was a failed attempt of a soft coup

[@yveeriksson7437]

@@russellm2555 Russia have only 1 party. Just like China and many other dictatorships. I worry about USA, but also about several countries in Europe. We can't take democracy for granted. We can lose it, just as women in USA lost their abortion rights.

[@mtn1793]

Don’t forget that both those parties are dependent on private donors for their election funding. Our free market electoral bribery system.

[@WeevBeev]

Excellent speaker, kudos to her and to your team that found her! Bring her back!

[@MaidenRockCoder]

I always get the warm fuzzies when someone from an agency infamous for inciting civil war and toppling government presents a mouth piece.

[@imrael496]

She is a propagandists.

[@stephaniemerlin1]

Its terrifying to see the fall of democracy in a country where democracy always 'appeared' to be one of its reasons for existing. I love the States, I have many friends there, I've travelled extensively around the country, but that was before Trump got in, and while the divisions before that were somewhat apparent to the outsider, they didn't appear to be so angry, fractured, or dangerous. I would hesitate to travel anywhere out of the places I know well in the US now, I fear they are populated with severe danger. 🇬🇧

[@AdrienLegendre]

I agree with your concern. The tolerance of violence from both political sides is wrong. Although most has come from the Left, both sides are responsible. The best approach is a strong zero tolerance of violence or any tolerance, rationalization or blame shifting to support political violence.

[@rowdy9379]

Get up North

[@frankwilliams1967]

You will also notice with scrutiny that the "fundamental transformation of the United States of Amurka" as promised in 2008-09 fits your observations to a T

[@sicworld1797]

While in Afghanistan, as a U.S. Marine I helped secure voting sites from taliban attacks so the Afghans could vote without threat. Only to come home to the american taliban using the same tactics. Sad

[@reighmund284]

I also remember that they had to give a finger print in Iraq to prove their identity and so they could only vote once. No mail in allowed since it could lead to cheating. Funny that we don't follow rules we demand others to follow.

[@sicworld1797]

@@reighmund284 I don't think it was a finger print, I believe just ink on the finger, not sure. We weren't the ones making the voting rules over there. We just scared and harassed the population, that was our mission. What rules are we not following? Nazi Germany loved asking people for their papers.

[@hexahexametermeter]

Too bad Biden made it a real hell hole.

[@chrisnash430]

ANTIFA who?

[@sicworld1797]

@@chrisnash430 you're so clever

[@johnhopkins6658]

As Rachel Maddows said - "Your vote at this election decides whether you ever vote again".

[@mtn1793]

More so whether our votes will ever be counted honestly again. State’s GOPs are lining up to skew the vote in a big way. It will start in these midterms and turn full right wing coup in 2024.

[@Goldenboy48]

Which is another lie but Democrats are accustomed to lying

[@savsmiles3042]

She also said that the vaccine stops the spread and from getting the coof. Why you would you quote a liar?

[@hexahexametermeter]

Wow you sure are drinkin the koolaid.

[@chrisnash430]

You lost me at Rachel Maddows....

[@zzzsydneyhom1379]

On a larger scale America's power and influence is waning internationally, and as long as it maintains an "us and them" mentality, we are all in deep trouble.

[@PUAlum]

As a white Christian man this is so disturbing and strange. I too happen to be (mostly) conservative. but my conservatism leads me to embrace our brilliant (thank you founding fathers) constitution. and the idea chiseled on the Supreme Court building, "Equal Justice Under Law". If we abandon all that, were kind of doomed. I'm grieved that it's my fellow Evangelical white males who are the biggest threat! We get a lot of deserved blame....but for threatening democracy?!? I'm dismayed.

[@fc1280]

If you think white conservative men are the biggest threat then shame on you for being as brainwashed as the left.

[@MaidenRockCoder]

I'm dismayed that we have given our intelligence over to power brokers. A civil war is exactly what both sides want.

[@judyorourke2410]

Republicans' gaslighting by saying the attack on Speaker Pelosi's husband was random violence is in line with Professor Walters' rationale.

[@FirewindII]

--e.g., part of the build. Thank you to the perp, well chosen like Oswald... Just a social misfit...

[@davidmarshall7752]

@@FirewindII Except Oswald was intelligent & unique (and possibly set-up). I'm surprised the MAGA conspiracy theory is not that it was arranged by the dems to illicit sympathy right before elections.

[@mitchyoung93]

Gaslighting is ignoring 6 months of violence from the Left.

[@ernalopez2793]

No alarm system at Pelosisss house, the 3rd most powerful person in US. Wtf

[@marel6279]

Despite his statements and social media blogs & posts.

[@williammelville6794]

This was the best analysis on the State Of the Union (USA) and also a warning ⚠️ that should be heeded

[@yournamehere7182]

Beautifully eloquent

[@tellthetruthna8523]

I read her book when it was first published nearly a year ago. It's hard to believe how much has happened and how much more divided the country has become since then. We are definitely heading in the wrong direction. It's like watching a disaster unfold. It feels like slow motion but at the same time a lot is happening on a near daily basis. Elon Musk's Twitter takeover feels like an ominous and potentially important event.

[@mulu2132]

would you recommend the book?

[@tellthetruthna8523]

@@mulu2132 Absolutely. I listened to it on audio. I'm planning to listen to it again because I'd like to apply the information to how the situation in the US is developing over time. I think I will have even more "aha" moments. The author really knows her stuff.

[@clarkpalace]

And now twitter is the major source of misinformation. Oct 2023

[@GraphicdesignforFree]

Has the Republican party not already _chosen_ this path, recently openly?

[@PoliticalWeekly]

If they have chosen this path, they have every right to do so.

[@GraphicdesignforFree]

@@PoliticalWeekly yes, but what is behind it is that a minority wants to suppress a majority, and that is unjust.

[@Youtuber-xs9cp]

Republican party is not one person to chose one path.

[@rosalietags]

All news agencies need to run this article (interview), to explain how stacking the courts and gerrymandering has already occurred. The republicans have already mentioned cutting social security and medicare. This is for all generations to look at and pay attention to! Today I received a negative propaganda pamphlet against the Biden administration. It was paid for by "American First Legal Foundation" You must look this up! Big money supports this! Ads against opponents are paid for by corporations and interest groups.

[@GraphicdesignforFree]

@@rosalietags I know, it's a problem. Let's hope things turn out well.

[@e-spy]

This was an excellent interview, thank you. As to coming together, I tried and tried to talk peaceably with the other side, and they are just too rabid and too far gone, imho. There IS no discussion with them. They just attack. So I think we are farther along than you stated here. Sadly. At this point, I am petrified for American Democracy. Those folks have made it clear that they do not want it.

[@gregoryjgarcia3862]

You're right, they are RABID, and, refuse any approach.

[@deborahspradlin4351]

I agree.

[@brynpookc1127]

Yes! I’ve tried very softly just by asking really wide questions, but you can’t even get close to the subject without getting screamed at and lots of swinging arms. There’s one friend I tiptoed around and she finally said she didn’t like Trump but all the republican policies were sound. I asked her what they were… silence.

[@JoeSmith-xu2zs]

Not joking, you may want to look into buying a firearm.

[@rosalietags]

All news agencies need to run this article (interview), to explain how stacking the courts and gerrymandering has already occurred. The republicans have already mentioned cutting social security and medicare. This is for all generations to look at and pay attention to! Today I received a negative propaganda pamphlet against the Biden administration. It was paid for by "American First Legal Foundation" You must look this up! Big money supports this! Ads against opponents are paid for by corporations and interest groups.

[@shivalingam578]

Scary as hell! Only if ALL WOMEN AND YOUNG PEOPLE HEAD TO THE POLLS, WE MIGHT HAVE A CHANCE TO SAVE THIS COUNTRY, that has sooo much potential to be even better...way better!

[@GIRLRAZR]

WOMAN POWER!

[@penashe17]

Got a chuckle out of the "woman power" message from a poster with the name "Shivalingam". ; )

[@leslieburgoyne5438]

Excellent interview!! Very informative and an eye opener. A must to watch.

[@scampifrity]

I feel it's kind of getting real all of the sudden.

[@Matt-fl8uy]

@Burnt Kitty Forge Yeah, ignoring the threat from the MAGA base won't matter until they attempt another violent overthrow of our country.

[@youngalwyn1124]

Excellent interview if you follow extreme Leftist propaganda.

[@NowHari]

thanks for watching.

[@dontransue9843]

She's lying to you about the majority of her assertions.

[@clarabow7077]

Vote in numbers too big to fail -

[@Val-hb6zy]

That's the only way we can avoid a crisis, but I'm not convinced enough Americans understand the peril of our democracy.

[@rlud304]

Abolish the ridiculous illogical nonsensical archaic outdated electoral fuckin college. It’s hard to steal an election of one person one vote which is how we do ALL other elections in the US

[@dcv5000]

In your democracy our votes don't count. I prefer a constitutional republic which is what the constitution is. Not whatever your "democracy" is

[@rebekahcuriel-alessi2239]

Brilliant. I am happy to hear her observation of what is hopeful and I now understand what could be motivating people I don't understand.

[@kalburgy2114]

The fact you don't understand us is the problem. We are nothing like what you have been told.

[@greenghost5009]

@@kalburgy2114we who ?

[@endlessadventure541]

What a smart woman. It seems so glaringly obvious that the US is headed into dark times.

[@helenpatterson3858]

Pretty sure that we have already arrived.

[@RiaSwiftHealing]

@@helenpatterson3858 Yes and thinking we are HEADED....instead of we are there is part of the problem. The empire is falling. That is the nuts and bolts of it.

[@thethirdman225]

I think I’d better read her book.

[@seanwoods5943]

You sound like tim pool

[@marel6279]

Unfortunately and I'm sick of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@douglastwyford9872]

Excellent interview and outlining of the threat within.

[@rosalietags]

All news agencies need to run this article (interview), to explain how stacking the courts and gerrymandering has already occurred. The republicans have already mentioned cutting social security and medicare. This is for all generations to look at and pay attention to! Today I received a negative propaganda pamphlet against the Biden administration. It was paid for by "American First Legal Foundation" You must look this up! Big money supports this! Ads against opponents are paid for by corporations and interest groups.

[@FirewindII]

It's what a fifth column means.

[@AdriennesHaus]

This is the threat! This woman just enflamed the democrats narrative that Pelosi attacker was Q-anon 🤣 another pro dem narrative - he was a gay hooker who was invited into the home. The Pelosi home is a bloody fortress. How do you think he got in and was there while Mr Pelosi excused himself to go to the bathroom and call for a wellness check so the guy would leave…. It was a bad date.

[@darellsimons2687]

What threat again?

[@youngalwyn1124]

This entire video is a propaganda narrative undertaken by the extremist woke Left.

[@fanneliese]

Very informative ... good to hear, that it is still an IF and not yet a WHEN ...

[@RyanRuark]

“Leaderless resistance” is a cute phrase for asymmetric terrorism.

[@jdice6868]

Stochastic terrorism is the term I've been using. Never heard of asymmetric terrorism, but it fits.

[@jonathonlyon8797]

Not that much different from Al Qaeda, either.

[@TheYurubutugralb]

@@jonathonlyon8797 Al Qaeda rough translation "The Base"

[@Magnulus76]

@@jdice6868 Exactly. Some members of the GOP right now are very much engaged in stochastic terrorism, or enabling it through accomodation.

[@FirewindII]

@@watson5551 May be cleverest of the year. Thank you.

[@christinewickeham3026]

Barbara did a fabulous job! She presented information very quickly! Well worth my time!

[@GIRLRAZR]

Yes she is very good!

[@therichmondburton]

Great interview. Wonderful person to convey this message.

[@user-ci7vu7eo9w]

😂

[@ChristopherFranko]

Yo, the way she is giving the presentation with a smile is unsettling.

[@gregorysalazar8370]

I am perplexed that we are seeing this happen, and not doing or preparing for the inevitable.

[@meghan42]

I sincerely hope it is not inevitable.

[@gatoryak7332]

What should we be doing to prepare for or prevent the escalation of domestic terrorism and Christofascism??

[@abqnm8811]

The reason we are doing nothing is because one party, in a two party system, supports it.

[@watson5551]

Maybe we should confront the magical thinking and their imaginary invisible friend that t supposedly tells them who to hate and what to fear and why it is morally ecceptable to commit atrocities as long as your a member of the club....... just a thought!

[@MeatCatCheesyBlaster]

That’s because they want it to happen

[@andjulia9292]

I’m worried about next week. Things may get ugly.

[@Amick44]

They've been laying the groundwork for some time. Rump has encouraged his candidates not to accept defeat. Many have already indicated just that.

[@gabrielpwv]

Is anybody else worried that this lady has a smile while she explains about murder, and toppling the establishment, and Attacks. - “and they commit murder….(😀)”

[@robertbrazzell8095]

It’s because she worked for the American government.

[@chickenmama823]

We really are so screwed. It just feels hopeless.

[@ladykemma3]

We are the majority .

[@420WEED69]

Stop trying to be a pain in the ASS ❄'s

[@fritterfoof5146]

@@ladykemma3 We do not vote in Majority , that is the PROBLEM .

[@ladykemma3]

@@fritterfoof5146 I can say the average Joe , jane is not aware of what is happening. "Biden won, is there still a problem?"

[@ladykemma3]

@@fritterfoof5146 I was asking some of the people at my second job. Very fast asleep.

[@SMF314]

The best self-protection for any group feeling that they are in danger of becoming a disaffected minority should be to vigorously guarantee that all citizens are treated equally regardless of minority status. Gerrymandering and voter suppression aimed at establishing minority rule are inherently unjust and risk a backlash.

[@tomjackson4374]

The real threat is the 1% who own both parties and who will use the threat of an imaginary civil war to grab more and more control.

[@SMF314]

@@tomjackson4374 Well, it seems to me that the real threats are people who push evidence-free conspiracy theories, those who accept them blindly, and aspiring autocrats who refuse to accept the will of the people as expressed at the polls and validated by the courts. Aren't the horrors served up daily by Vladimir Putin enough to wake these people up to the dangers of autocracy?

[@georgefurman4371]

Is like talking to an old arrogant man full of him self and unrepentant. Trump is their mediocre image. Because that is the quality of wealth. Cruel , cold , relentless and addictive . the love of material wealth is... The same old moral. the wealthy think they'll get away with it again and again and again. . Never learned. Never really punished.

[@ericrobinson7184]

Well, isn't racial injustice the glue of white people? I guess you think white people just woke up and decided slavery and segregation was a bad idea.

[@cdevidal]

It's frightening watching both sides stoke the flames of civil war then use psychological projection pointing at the other saying, "He started it!"

[@april6662]

That was hella informative!!

[@DELANODOMINICANO]

Great interview! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@NowHari]

thanks for watching.

[@zelly8163]

Watching from Australia I have become increasingly worried about a civil war in the States. Internal unrest at this time is dangerous for the entire world not just in the US. Over the past four years we have been watching a dictator become more and more powerful until America's democracy is under real threat...interesting interview but worrying that Barbara F. Walter cant stop from smiling.

[@skyblu6379]

Don't you mean over the last 2 years? I'm not for either party, just to be clear. They, "the powers that be," give you an illusion of having a choice, but that's just an illusion. They are all on the same team, they are 2 wings on the back of the same bird. None of them can solve our problems. The only one who can solve our problems is our Creator and it won't be long before he sends his Son to come down here to clean house. I vote for him!

[@dandylandpuffplaysminecraf8744]

She is an academic and a female. Maybe she is happy to get the message out. Is your concern that she isn’t freaking out? Upon reflection her mouth is structured in an upturn vs the interviewer. He looks like doom. Misogynist reflex on your part?

[@petermorin442]

She's NOT smiling It's just the way her Mouth opens when she Talks !!!

[@MaidenRockCoder]

It's all really good theater orchestrated by those in political power. The author of the book spent a career in misinformation helping the U.S. to topple countries, and instill leaders and law. This is no different. Make sure to keep your popcorn bucket full.

[@rowdy9379]

Obamma got it started.

[@lindadeal3344]

It truly feels like a civil could start between the two parties! We must prevent this from happening in our country! Vote for people who are showing respect, integrity and good character! We must have better leaders based on their honesty and wish to serve without the dark money interference! We need leaders that cannot be bought by the DJT and others like him!

[@votebluerepubsarenazis9000]

The enemy is clear, white republicans, we know who they are, pull voter registrations and start arresting these nazis

[@e-spy]

And whom on the republican side is left to vote for??? None of them are showing respect, integrity or good character! And some not even slight intelligence.

[@Grumpyoldman037]

It is not a war between parties, it is between a minority group of disaffected white men and the rest of the country. They have taken over the republican party.

[@ballandpaddle]

Those two parties being Republican fascists and everyone else who's normal and wants democracy and isn't a fascist. There, fixed it for you.

[@brynpookc1127]

I’ve said it for years. Citizens United started the road to hell. Corporations are not PEOPLE.

[@stprk]

“How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them" An excellent book. I think a civil war is less likely in fully autocratic regimes, as the pressures on the people are very intense, the opposition is either absent or largely suppressed and has little strength to resist. However, in anocracies, the ruling and opposition forces are almost equal in terms of election results and vote rates. Thus, when the government resorts to violence to intimidate opponents, it is more likely that the opposition will respond, so civil war is more likely. Only I would disagree that she calls the instigators of violence as "ethnic entrepreneurs", should be "ethnic provocateurs".

[@Tina-di4lx]

Another Great Interview Thanks

[@presspound7358]

I read her book. Well worth the purchase. What’s mind boggling or gobsmacking as they are wont to say in the UK …. is the fact that we are talking about the United States in the XXI Century ! As one French diplomat was heard saying to US officials: “ How could you have fallen so quickly and so far.”

[@savsmiles3042]

@@MelodyKayYoung pot meet kettle

[@sirbrad2336]

Blah blah blah....

[@azizaibrahim1155]

@Sir , Sez you ???? Very powerful of you, tiny troll !

[@ckva7888]

The answer is simple neo-Marxist democrats purged academia, abandoned our founding principals and are now collapsing western culture.

[@pohlack7410]

@@MelodyKayYoung yes, very true! Allowing advertising / fake news to divide us. We need to stand United with one another.

[@rabidgoon]

we should be voting online. it's 2022, not 1822

[@ladykemma3]

Too much room for fraud

[@rabidgoon]

​@@ladykemma3 false

[@jdice6868]

It is absolutely true that online voting can be made secure. However, in the current climate, there is no way that change can be made in the near future. It will happen eventually. I imagine FRS to confirm who logged on and a one-use password for the vote may be the way to go, but right now the deniers are convinced in-person paper ballots are the only secure vote. Of course, this is not secure and is often used by autocracies in less affluent countries to maintain power.

[@omri9982]

SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY - VOTE BLUE AMERICA

[@wileycom]

Sobering, insightful, frightening. 😢

[@emanuelmota7217]

The problem is ... one side WANTS a civil war.

[@Amick44]

With their our way or the highway mindset, it's tough to feel differently.

[@reighmund284]

I agree the democrats pushed a violent agenda with riots and civil unrest basically saying vote us into office or this will continue. Funny it all stopped as soon as they took office.

[@emanuelmota7217]

@@reighmund284 If you really believe that you're a moron. If you don't believe it but you're just saying then you're just a Republican.

[@danielfigler]

Amen. I am all in favor of civil war and remove the GOP by force if necessary.

[@crouchingcaterpillar]

@@Amick44 There's always another way if people put their hatreds and egos aside. We can't talk in this country any longer. We don't seem to come close to speaking the same language.

[@YssaRee]

.....17 of the more disturbing & unnerving minutes of recent memory (even w/so much competition of disturbing & unnerving things!!). 😣

[@origmoojazz]

Scary but very timely interview.

[@terryr7622]

Somehow I don’t think Fox News will ever be inviting her in the near future

[@AdrienLegendre]

I agree, she is far to biased.

[@genxerfool9797]

Any fool that says the CIA is not a political organization ain't worth listening to.

[@steven0837]

well said, the legacy of racism runs deep here.

[@steven0837]

@Neo Anderson ...thanks, you make my point for me!

[@FirewindII]

@Steven Bradley: ...driven by unending fear. The devil never sleeps.

[@steven0837]

@@FirewindII explain devil...does it exist or is it what some uncivilized people do?

[@FirewindII]

@@steven0837 Hey, pardner. Was quoting an old saw. We're not at odds.

[@terryhardin1640]

@@steven0837 Jewish, Christian, Muslim ect religions say the enemy exists and has existed. Billions of peoples on this earth believe it exists. The existence, rise and fall of the enemy and it's ruling "hidden principalities and rulers" in these particular times was accurately predicted and recorded thousands of years ago. Don't be fooled by the fictions, movies, silly, scary names and other distractions. Something has control of the worldwide systems of mana (money); control of major worldwide food production and distribution (feast or famine), health services (sickness or health) and Religions (subsitute wife aka prostitute religions). Many similar,secret and not so secret societies and orders around the world consisting of members with varying degrees of monetary, political, and religious power. Wonder why the so-called christian churches and Jewish synagogues around the world refuse to bring up the parallels between trumpf and the "one who makes the way for the serpent". The ex leader of the most powerful country that has ever existed in the known history of this eath; a leader known to have lied over 30 thousand times in 4 years? A fear monger, cheat, world divider; ect? Sounds pretty devilish to me :). And I'm not joking.

[@stubbsmusic543]

Why are people so eager to be led into tyranny?

[@richardgrier8968]

For all the reasons she laid out, and why the fascists keep promoting the "great replacement theory".

[@MeatCatCheesyBlaster]

Because they think the tyrants will be on their side

[@watson5551]

Is it really that difficult to see Religion is the key motivator in these historically repetitive events.

[@richardgrier8968]

@@MeatCatCheesyBlaster This.

[@bobfrog4836]

Fox News told them they were living under a tyranny during the Obama years, they think they're freeing America from tyranny...

[@rrandileft]

1981. Santa Monica, California. My 4th Chicago American grandmother and I walking down REAGAN'S Lincoln and 6th. "Just remember, this is not who or what we are. We do better as a community. " (She was explaining to me the sudden influx of mentally mad people on every corner). Thanks , Grameo. I have never forgotten your words.

[@nenmaster5218]

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[@8088I]

If we don't believe dRumpf's rhetoric can't become reality, then we haven't been paying attention to the rhythm and rhyme of history.

[@kevinjenner9502]

CIA coups removing democratically elected leaders/governments. Iran (1953) Guatemala (1954) Congo (1960) Dominican Republic (1961) S Vietnam (1963) Brazil (1964) Chile (1973) etc

[@chrisnash430]

Yes lets follow Diapers right into WW III>>>>>>

[@Duh6666666]

Citizens United and the Electoral College have to go as I see them as the biggest obstacles to a free-running Democracy.

[@ZenBen_the_Elder]

Tha Agency is sending their best.

[@niccoarcadia4179]

America stayed glued together because of it's fine police personal. I respect law and order. Without L&O you do not have a country, you have a devil's playground.

[@davidmumford367]

Violence is the last refuse of the incompetent.

[@chalkedlines8960]

"Refuge," but "refuse" kind of works too.

[@bonediga2560]

Sounds to me like we're already 80% of the way there - Checking off all sorts of boxes -

[@gildaramirez9948]

Powerful, scary, & sad.

[@charlessteadjr1839]

It's easier to cry victim than rising to a challenge.

[@SunnyIlha]

I understand her precisely. My degree is Cultural Anthropology and there is clearly the fruition of what can be called The Sea of Change that began approximately 1960. The seismic shift towards genuine True Democracy that American Society continuously strives to accomplish is taking it's final shape. Who the Guest explains are the ones who feel threatened by this Evolution is accurate.

[@randyscrafts8575]

Wow. That's deep. Misguided but deep.

[@desertportal353]

Excellent understanding, Thanks to you both.

[@NowHari]

thanks for watching.

[@shirleyrice7093]

We are already in the very dangerous pre-insurgency phase.

[@northernbohemianrealist1412]

WHOA! Barbara Walters goes back to the 1960s on the Today Show with Tom Brokaw. I can't believe that she is still alive, let alone looks this way! Plastic surgery has come a LONG way!

[@CaptainAngelo]

Great listen.

[@MsSexyDiva4Lyfe]

This was really good. She needs to be on the news daily. I just saw a lady on tiktok who was stockpiling food because the crisis at the border will have us unable to leave the house. CRAZY!!!!

[@stevejette2329]

This is a clearly stated explanation of what we have all seen but maybe not understood.

[@craigcarroll1790]

This was a sobering interview. According to this we are stage 2 for insurrection

[@db5823]

We're well into it. The GOP has been fomenting this for decades now, and they have seemed to all coalesce. They're now trying to move to stage 3.

[@mtn1793]

@@db5823 I’d say we’ll see stage 3 on the state’s level in these midterms and across the nation. If they get away with that the federal elections will be goners in 2024.

[@Goldenboy48]

@@db5823 that's called projection

[@Goldenboy48]

There was no insurrection. Even the FBI said so...y'all can't help but lie though

[@KGRICK1]

@@Goldenboy48 show us how the left is calling for war, calling the republicans the "enemy of the country", come on lets hear it.

[@cynthiamarie2107]

Equally important, Americans need to understand the hostile domestic and foreign actors who are manipulating emotions behind the scenes in hopes of creating opportunities for violence and power grabs.

[@truth2power463]

Excellent viewpoint. I would suggest that one of the reasons why "democracy doesn't work" for right-wing white men any longer, is that they NEVER sought democracy in the first place. As you point out quite eloquently, they were used to a rigged game, a pocket ace. They were accustomed to the system regarding them as the purveyors of the first best choices in America, followed by a doling out of lesser opportunities for all of the people they never characterized as worthwhile from the beginning. Now that people of all colors and ethnicities are standing in defiance of this inequitable paradigm, their true confederate colors are shining through. The fact is, they never WANTED to compete. They wanted everything handed to them by a racially corrupt system, and now that they have to compete, equality feels like discrimination to THEM.

[@starphlo1233]

She must be happy about it with that smile. Unnerving. I can't stand to look at her talk.

[@abqnm8811]

The reason it cannot be stopped is because one party (in a two party system) supports it.

[@MaidenRockCoder]

BOTH parties support it. This is what the CIA does.

[@goldenphoenixpublish]

Every problem has a solution: In this case, 'tolerance of diversity'. Later, we might just come to appreciate the same. After all, who wants to see the same movie, over and over again?

[@cbrinsfi]

It's easy to see the pathology in the "other" group, much more difficult to see it in your own.

[@olddoug8945]

"THEIR NUMBERS ARE DECLINING." BUT THEIR POWER IS INCREASING. WEIRD AIN'T IT.

[@Fitbridges]

Wow she is a very informed writer, worth the time to read and listen to!

[@savsmiles3042]

She’s a propagandist and you’re an idiot for believing it

[@NowHari]

thanks for watching.

[@pamsullivan886]

Why does she look so cheery delivering this horror story…

[@JackHenryKraven]

The Big Question: What should the individual do to help keep this from happening, to keep from becoming a victim to one of these groups?

[@deserticus18]

she seems so happy about it

[@ttrestle]

What an outstanding talk

[@TonyTheTGR]

Pelosi is half the equation and McConnell is the other half.

[@Butterfly-zs2pc]

So glad I watched this, it ties everything together. The media and politicians keep calling on the Republicans to SPEAK OUT AND CONDEMN THE VIOLENCE, but the reply from Republicans hasn't been what you would expect, it has been less than. Based on what Barbara Walters is saying they will just keep on escalating the situation ?

[@gaywizard2000]

Walter not Walters! Not a 90 year old kook!

[@Goldenboy48]

She actually means the left...she's projecting as leftist always do

[@AgeOfGoldenSilence]

Barbara Walters is a journalist with a decades long career.

[@petermorin442]

Barbara F. WALTER NOT WalterS

[@gaywizard2000]

@@AgeOfGoldenSilence I meant to say that but that came out instead.

[@stacybrewer9272]

The silent majority is pissed!!!! They know it.

[@InternationalMysteries360]

We all read A Tale of Two Cities and see those starting civil wars as the down trodden. She has set the record straight. In the modern age, it’s those who were dominant and perceive they are losing power.

[@terryhardin1640]

True. The self appointed "glorious defenders of American freedom" of 20-30 years ago have become the major danger to that same Freedom. The primary tool of facism in the U.S.A.

[@kalburgy2114]

The French Revolution was started by the aristocracy. The commoners then took over the revolution.

[@InternationalMysteries360]

@@kalburgy2114 I know but you miss the point. From the commoners we get the impression of revolutions being started by the downtrodden masses.

[@MaidenRockCoder]

The CIA has a great track record of civil wars..... I guess that we'll just ignore that.

[@lecrapface5270]

🤦🏻‍♂️

[@annicecaldwell1271]

Such a good explanation!!!!!!!

[@ronkirk5099]

The minority opinion governing due to the electoral college, congressional district gerrymandering, and the wildly skewed senate representation which gives the minority opinion undue political power are the biggest threats because functioning Democracies are suppose to be MAJORITY opinion governing. Thanks for another thoughtful Amanpour and Co conversation.

[@kalburgy2114]

Democracies are the tyranny of the majority. That is why the USA was founded as a republic, not a democracy.

[@conniekimble1782]

My favorite thing she said.... "the party that is in decline" Please GOD. Please.

[@amydavid1111]

Such good questions and clear answers. Thank you both.

[@NowHari]

thanks for watching.