JemyM
Okay, now roll sanity.
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Second, you're so scared to death of nationalism (as usual) that you ignore other possibilities. I could see a couple "grass roots" movements prompting your civil war, rather than it having to be a top-down revolution. You could easily get a populist revolution ala Marie Antoinette France that doesn't really require a dynamic leader. Riots create their own inertia.JemyM said:If most of a nation exist to the far sides of the spectrum instead of the center of the spectrum, events can happen very rapidly when neighbors turn on neighbors.
On the other end, if government continues its overreach, you run the risk of prompting a backlash from what I generalize as the "militia righties". Those folks are generally well-armed and fairly prepared to carry on a guerrilla campaign against the government. They'd be more likely to bubble up a charismatic figurehead of some sort, but I don't know that it would be a definite requirement. You'd probably categorize the latter as a nationalist movement, but there's just as many differences as similarities between the militias and the traditional posterboy for textbook nationalism, Uncle Adolf. Both situations would drag on much longer than necessary due to the populace and government having vocal sympathetic minorities supporting each movement.
I thought I covered that as I proposed both a bottom-up and top-down process. The Bosnian War wasn't a top-down process.
There are plenty of ways to carve up the world. Nationalism comes from natio- which means people, so nationalism is translated "a political ideology based on a people". I may (as a consequence of reading too much anthropology) use this a bit more generalized than I should, because to me "the people" can be just any group that recognizes itself as a group, including "workers".
When a nation hits a certain level of uncertainty the beliefs about the world that already exist there will surface and lines are drawn.
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