"The people who tend to start civil wars, especially ethnically-based civil wars, are the groups that had once been politically dominant but are in decline.

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The United States is in the midst of a major transition from a country whose population is majority white to a country whose population will be majority non-white. The United States will be the first country to go through this, but others are going to follow. Canada is likely to be next...

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Businesses can invest in better health care, better education and a higher minimum wage so that they create a group of people who are hopeful about the future and less vulnerable to the calls by extremists to burn the system down.

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I've interviewed a lot of people who have lived through a civil war and they all say the same thing. "I didn't see it coming."'