- 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. --- "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." - [Source](http://theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/04/us-extremism-portland-george-floyd-protests-january-6/673088?utm_source=pocket_saves) "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?”" - [Source](http://theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/04/us-extremism-portland-george-floyd-protests-january-6/673088?utm_source=pocket_saves)