Mind you, this sadly looks like the nightly news on nearly any given Tuesday.
However, in Garlands hands, these reports were occurring in the good ol US of A.
The call was coming from inside the house.
And it could be a lot closer than we care to admit.
For every Northern Ireland, there is a Somalia.
Theres this nonprofit based in Virginia called the Center for Systemic Peace, Walter said.
And every year it measures all sorts of things related to the qualities of governments around the world.
How autocratic or how democratic a country is.
And it has this scale that goes from negative 10 to positive 10.
Negative 10 is the most authoritarian, so think about North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain.
Positive 10 are the most democratic…
The U.S. was a positive 10 for many, many years.
Its no longer a positive 10.
Full democracies almost never have civil wars.
Full autocracies rarely have civil wars.
All of the instability and violence is happening in this middle zone.
It can, maybe, even look like Jesse Plemons in Elton John sunglasses sporting an assault rifle.
Civil War enters theaters on April 12, 2024.
