youngmafbog - //My point is that liberalism pushes people to the extreme as a knee jerk reaction. It's not rocket science. //
And my (and several other posters) point is that it does nothing of the kind.
Human nature is largely unchanging, and part of it means that there will always be sections of the community who like to feel that they 'belong' to something, and that is often reflected in post-adolescent dressing up and forming together in groups, often with attendant noise and attention-seeking.
At one end of the spectrum, that can be bike and scooter clubs, football supporters, golf club members, that sort of thing. At the other are the neo-Nazis. the survivalists, the racist gangs like the EDL.
But the fundamental principles remain - these groups have always been around, and always will be, they always make a lot of noise, they have an unerring belief that only they understand what is going on, and only they are right (the rest of us are 'sleeping', 'blinkered' insert your own superior self-satisfied label here if you wish.
And the vital point that we should never lose sight of? they are and will always remain tiny minorities, who attention-seeking and media coverage is in direct inverse proportion to the impact they really have, and the relevance to society as a whole.
Life goes on - nothing to see here.