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Old 09-23-2020, 11:38 PM   #4113
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...... yeah tough to see how this doesn’t boil over? I get that it sucks and is scary, I actually can’t see any other way out. You ask me why I’m so confident, I guess I ask you why you’re so confident that the result is not a savage bloody explosion of violence here?
Sustained civil unrest requires two major demographic factors:

1. A large number of young men, proportionally, in the population.

2. Those young men to be experiencing extremely high levels of unemployment (20-25%).

Absent these two factors, you simply do not see sustained unrest anywhere. On the other hand, the existence of these two demographic factors is incredibly predictive of such violence.
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