- Violence doesn't necessarily require a clear ideology or principle. To encourage violence you can just pick up different ideas from different sources much like a salad bar.
- Often the ones fighting with violence don't even know what they believe or hope for. They don't really have a clear picture of what they're trying to achieve.
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"Violence doesn’t need a clear or consistent ideology and often borrows from several. Federal law-enforcement officials use the term salad-bar extremism to describe what worries them most today, and it applies just as aptly to the extremism of a century ago."
"Extremists may not even know what they believe, or hope for. “One of the things I increasingly keep wondering about is—what is the endgame?” Mary McCord, a former assistant U.S. attorney and national-security official, told me. “Do you want democratic government? Do you want authoritarianism? Nobody talks about that. Take back our country . Okay, so you get it back. Then what do you do?”" - [[n]]