It invariably culminates in the betrayal of movements, and often worse. It also makes its purveyors come over as unrelentingly ignorant about the world in which they think they're "players" (but are just marks)

One of the striking things about the US Left is its attachment to geopolitics (scaled-up nationalism and etatism), and finding one's position by way of picking "enemy of my enemy" on that imagined geopolitical chessboard.

"Since the 1970s, Assemblies of God churches have repeatedly reinstated ministers and volunteer leaders accused of sexual misconduct, returning them to pulpits and youth groups..."
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Ideology before profit, especially as they see education as indoctrination.

True, though this feels more explicit.

Seriously though, this comes from a beautiful photo essay of a strange and troubling subject. I highly recommend it.

4. The city, for them, was a seething mass of “aliens” and “cosmopolitans” (ie Jews). It teemed with “foreign” and “degenerate” ideas and practices. Some of them, particularly Gerald Wallop (Lord Lymington), railed against its democratic impulses: he wanted a revival of aristocratic rule.

3. It was rescuscitated in the 1920s and 1930s by fascist movements. “Rural revivalism” was a major force in the emergence of fascism in Germany, Italy, France, the UK and elsewhere. In the UK it was fomented by the likes of Gerald Wallop, Jorian Jenks, Rolf Gardiner and Henry Williamson.