Extremists, extremism and their signs, flags and symbols.

[fluffy]

This new political controlled group, the leftest, are being led down a designed path at the hands of the rich and have no idea.

You’re half right. It is the hands of the rich that hold the rudder, but they know no political allegiance. They will use different tactics to influence different parts of the political spectrum, but their intention remains the same, maintain control to benefit themselves and no one else.

Perhaps the more important question when it come to regular folk is what has changed that made extremism an acceptable form of self expression, and just what is it that those taking part in the violence want ? Anarchy ? Bring down “the system” ?

[Queen K]

Yes, people like Sheldon Adelson poured millions into GOP causes and almost every obit of him made no bones about his use of the White House for Israeli ambitions. The very apex of the rich being rudderless but only gravitating to what they see as best for their own causes. Should billions have gone to Israel, or into creating an American healthcare system that works? Perhaps the anger of the extremist right and the extremist left is channeled directly at their government because they know what the answer is. And being labelled anti-semetic is exactly like being labelled a "white supremist" or a "socialist communist." Here is one write up on Sheldon for anyone with leisure time. Google more of them, his donations to Republicans seem to be the focus of every write up.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/busi ... -dead.html

In May 2016, after Donald J. Trump became the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Mr. Adelson told him in a private meeting in Manhattan that he was willing to contribute more to help elect him than he had given to any previous campaign, a sum that could exceed $100 million, according to two Republicans with direct knowledge of Mr. Adelson’s commitment. He eventually gave the Trump presidential campaign only $25 million but was still its largest donor.

Mr. Trump, who had swept through the primaries with astonishing ease, had relied for nearly a year on his own wealth and small campaign contributions. But he said at the time that he would need perhaps $1 billion for the general election campaign. Many of the Republican Party’s wealthiest contributors, including Charles G. and David H. Koch, indicated that they were unlikely to support Mr. Trump, so Mr. Adelson’s pledge was a hefty boost to his campaign.

“He is a candidate with actual C.E.O. experience, shaped and molded by the commitment and risk of his own money rather than the public’s,” Mr. Adelson wrote in an op-ed for The Washington Post. Mr. Trump, he added, “has created a movement in this country that cannot be denied.”

After Mr. Trump’s election, Mr. Adelson gave $5 million to the committee organizing the inauguration festivities. It was the largest single contribution to any president’s inaugural event, and on the day of the swearing-in ceremony in January 2017, Mr. Adelson and his wife sat along the aisle a few rows back as Mr. Trump took the oath of office. Under the Trump administration, the Adelsons achieved at least one of their long-held goals: the relocation of the United States Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, in 2018.

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A Courted Moneyman
With cornucopias of cash, Mr. Adelson had for years showered king’s ransoms on Republican Party stalwarts. He was a major supporter of President George W. Bush in 2004 and gave $92.7 million to campaigns and super PACs supporting Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and others in 2012. He told Forbes that he was willing to spend $100 million to defeat President Barack Obama.

Mr. Adelson’s influence was on display in March 2014, when four prospective presidential candidates — Govs. Chris Christie of New Jersey, Scott Walker of Wisconsin and John Kasich of Ohio, and former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida — went to Las Vegas for what critics called an audition before the Republican Party’s most coveted and fearsome moneyman.

“The four Republican candidates prostrated themselves, seeking Adelson’s stamp of approval and cash,” Thomas B. Edsall wrote on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times.

[fluffy]

There’s also an argument made that extremists of any political or philosophical bent, are more given to an impulsive and emotional response than any measure of deep thinking. This makes them prime candidates for manipulation.

[Queen K]

But will it be the extremist's free for all that it once was?

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