What I did not discuss was this: I believe more than a desire for political and economic power motivates the SJW, BLM and their allies. It is their blanket rejection of Enlightenment values, of western culture, of history, of the arts and essentially of the institutions that support the rule of law and equality. This is not to say our system is perfect, but an honest reading of history and activism demonstrates that the U.S.A. has made huge progress in achieving social justice and economic opportunity, thanks to our Constitution (which is also being categorically and stupidly rejected). This wholesale rejection of essentially all of western culture and society is at the root of the resistance of the poor, the minorities and the disenfranchised. The whole premise of these resistance groups - that liberal principles only perpetuate illegitimate and regressive power - is completely wrong but this dogma is what fires them up and helps to rationalize their radical objectives. It also shores up their authoritarianism no less than it did in the Soviet Union or China. Their position is therefore inflexible, unrealistic and necessarily violent to one degree or another. As long as they abhor western civilization and misrepresent liberal democracy for ideological purposes, they have no claim to any kind of virtue.