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I guess that, indeed, civil wars are the most unlikely under a democratic system. You'd be needing a severe deterioration of the political institutions for that to happen, at least. As far as student unions and party machines are still predominating...

A society may come to a context of near-insurrection as we've seen at a few places in the West lately, but there's always the specter of democracy preying over people's heads. And that doesn't just mean voting for parties... it's way deeper than that. This means clinging to consumer society and work as the conditions of abdication. People may protest for a long while, but how they gonna feed themselves and have some security, comfort, relationships... that's the question they aren't asking for an answer to, yet the answer's always "provided" by the dominant system, even if you gotta work work work for it.