It is a universal truism that those who lead riots on any streets will stop if given either money or a job. The brighter rioters want government jobs. So, they sidle up to those in a position to transfer money to them, and promise “peace” if they are able to quickly find employment among those who endlessly “study” problems. Of this group, the smarter ones want their own department, or sub-department, to ensure more permanent funding. Gradually, the smarter ex-rioters work their way into permanent jobs in the “civil service”, many departments of which are neither.
Deprived of leadership, the mobs quickly evaporate, to be resurrected only when a new group of people seeking tax money re-organizes them, often incorporating the word “new” into their title. Most low-level members of the group get little out of it, except the opportunity for drugs, theft without jail, and sex. That’s all they want, that’s all they get.
Interestingly, once they’re established with secure cash flows, those who led the earlier groups of rioters will cheerfully shoot successive waves of rioters down like dogs.
