Talk:Equalists/@comment-1533301-20111111235500/@comment-1533301-20111115205150

You have to look for parallels here. You have the wildly popular sport of pro-bending, which parallels boxing and baseball during the 20's. You have sinister cops, like the LAPD before and during the Christine Collins case and the Wineville Chicken Coop Massacare. You have gangland violence, like we had during Prohibition with the Five Families in New York and Al Capone in Chicago. And finally you have the Equalists, a radical political and militant group. Who might their parallels be in our world? You have the KKK, which in the 1920's swelled to nearly 5 million members and advanced their cause through terrorism. You have the Communist Party, which overthrew the Russian government and threatened that all other governments would follow. You had the Facists taking over Italy and establishing a totalitarian regime, and the seeds of the Nazi Party growing in Germany as well. You also had Women's Suffragists, the Temperance movement, and let's not forget the stink caused by the Scopes Monkey Trial. We see many of these groups as "bad", but you have to understand the mindset of the people who joined and supported these groups. These groups wouldn't have gotton as large or as powerful as they did without massive public support, and why would otherwise rational people join such a group such as the Nazis or the KKK? Definatly not people who are happy and content with their lives, that's for sure. So why are the supporters of the Equalists not happy with their lives, enough so to support a shady guy like Amon?