I still don't see the logic in how trashing buildings, looting, attacking police, and getting arrested is supposed to help their cause. How does this make our country better? Sick of people in this world going around wrecking shit, leaving others with problems to fix. It's thick as pigshit mentality. You can talk about divisions in society, social classes, race, sexuality, colour, etc. But, generally, there are only two types of people really - builders and bulldozers.
I've been thinking a lot about this, it's a really important point. I think it's clear that the idiots rioting and looting are carrying out the wishes of central figures of the populist movement, who at worst organise/encourage it, and at best offer only a face-saving mild criticism of the violence, followed by "but I did tell you so". For the thugs on the street it's a fun day out, an excuse to riot, a momentary sense of gratification in "fighting" for something they don't comprehend.
So how does having thugs rioting help the cause of the populist movement? I think that they think increasing racial tensions will help them further rabble rouse, put pressure on the government/public services, and ultimately win at the ballot box. I don't think their claim that they are fed up of not being listened to is the true cause - and if it is, then it's monumentally stupid and counter productive imo. It's a tried and tested technique, and one that has never worked in this country. It is a tactic than can draw a crowd, can turn 10 people into 100, or 100 into 1000 etc, but it is limited in scale. Using violence does not help them get listened to, it only discredits them. No negotiation with terrorists. They won't be able to claim "it's not fair, you didn't listen to us when we burnt a hotel with people inside". Of course we didn't fecking listen, and rightly so. If they can't get themselves heard maybe they need better fecking figure heads than Tommy Robinson and Lawrence Fox. If they can't get themselves elected, maybe they need better politicians than Nigel Farage.
The other option is that some are just pure grifters and trolls, and the riots are good for their popularity and they enjoy the chaos. I had a peak at Sargon of Akkad's twitter earlier (he was a gamergate anti-woke YouTuber now turned full right wing grifter) - and his PINNED tweet was him a month or so ago apologising to Jess Phillips for saying he wouldn't rape her, because he has "realised the detrimental impact of coarse political rhetoric" - and yet this week he has been praising literal criminal rioters as national heroes. They don't see the irony, or don't care. Coarse political rhetoric is bad, but violence is good? What the actual feck. They have gone so far down the rabbit hole that they now demonstrate all of the hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance that they accused the woke left of. And the left
can be overly biased at times, out of a genuine desire to be kind and non-discriminatory. UKIP made the mistake of enlisting Carl Benjamin, PJW and a few other grifters thinking it would appeal to a younger demographic, but it backfired spectacularly. If Farage and Reform continue associating themselves with these people, the same will happen again. Massive own goal. A football hooligan with a criminal record as long as his midget legs is not going to further the political aspirations of their cause. He's got a successful track record of getting a few thousands yobs to protest/riot, but it's never progressed beyond that and never will.
Other aspiring leaders in the populist movement - Douglas Murray, Konstantin Kisin, for example - are sensibly keeping their mouths shut and just doing the "All political violence is bad...but I told you so". However, it's not going to work for them forever. That rat Konstantin is a smarmy wannabe intellectual who has been invited on Question Time and numerous other events/shows, and is desperately trying to forge a legitimate career as a "non-partisan, rational thinker" whilst click-baiting and dog whistling a rabid right wing audience online. Stick him on the next Question Time and ask him to condemn the violence, and watch him squirm to try and maintain his facade of respectability without angering his right wing audience.
I think/hope that millions of people who do follow these populists - but don't participate in the violence - will in due course look at it objectively and realise that they have been hoodwinked and are siding with the wrong people. The challenge is getting them to stick their heads out of the online echo chambers they are in. Because if they follow the likes of Farage, Sargon, Tommy Robinson etc, and get their news from just those platforms, then they will be fed a never ending cycle of news and opinion that reinforces their views. Because at the moment there's tonnes of "middle class Joe and Jane" who are silently enabling the violence by not condemning it. I hope that lengthy prison sentences for the most violent offenders in these riots, and publicising it front and centre all over the news, will shake many people out of it and get them to face reality. You can't defend burning a hotel with people inside it, and no rational political movement would result in burning hotels with people inside.
Sorry I've ranted and gone off from what you originally said, but it felt good man.