- The question we ponder with a lot of these violent people movements is how they end. Unfortunately the answer to that is it usually ends in a catastrophic event when something major happens. In Italy that happened when a former prime minister was killed by a group. --- "The conventional wisdom among terrorism experts had been that terrorists wanted publicity but didn’t really want to kill people—or, as the Rand Corporation’s Brian Jenkins put it in 1975, “Terrorists want a lot of people watching, not a lot of people dead.”" - [Source](http://theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/04/us-extremism-portland-george-floyd-protests-january-6/673088?utm_source=pocket_saves) "William Bernstein, the author of The Delusions of Crowds, is not optimistic that anything else will work: “The answer is—and it’s not going to be a pleasant answer—the answer is that the violence ends if it boils over into a containable cataclysm.” What if, he went on—“I almost hesitate to say this”—but what if they actually had hanged Mike Pence or Nancy Pelosi on January 6? “I think that would have ended it. I don’t think it ends without some sort of cathartic cataclysm. I think, absent that, it just boils along for a generation or two generations.” Bernstein wasn’t the only expert to suggest such a thing." - [Source](http://theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/04/us-extremism-portland-george-floyd-protests-january-6/673088?utm_source=pocket_saves)