Ladder of Radicalization

Goldman and Berkman, Anarchists

How many people in the world will actually pursue ideological violence completely unprovoked?

I have no idea at the actual numbers, but my guess is they are staggeringly small. It's probably similar to the people who engage in violent religious rituals like "eye plucking festival" or religious self mutilation.

After the September 11 attacks in the US, the public was constantly reminded at the possibility of being randomly murdered in public by disgruntled Muslims. However, almost every subsequent terrorist 'threat' that was thwarted by the FBI was actually arranged, sometimes financed, by the FBI itself.

At the end of the 19th century, and in the early 20th century, anarchists assassinated political figures, including William McKinley, and attempted assassination of business leaders like Henry Clay Frick. Some were "lone gunmen", others were bombers. The people who eventually pull the trigger get there after a process of indoctrination. I've often wondered if any element of it is spontaneous or organic. Is it entirely planned and coordinated by secret societies, mafias or intelligence agencies? At this point, I'm pretty sure "anarchism" is a product of the ideology/religion factory that also spawned the neocons. My gut feeling is such ideologies serve to create a feeder system--to find the handful of individuals out of billions who will kill and die for fictions.

Today in the US, the 2016 presidential race is particularly contentious. It's a major departure from the stage managed selections of prior years where two establishment figures danced around the stage in kabuki theater fashion. Regardless of what or who Trump actually represents, he's a divisive figure, and seems to really rile up the NWO and globalists as do other supposed "nationalist" politicians in Europe.

The rhetoric from his opponents keeps evoking nazis, gas chambers, and ovens. I wonder, does that establish a bottom rung on a ladder of radicalization?