The cliff notes version of my personal thought with regard to that specific question is that I think it was a combination of both.
Whether people were paid or not, I've no idea.
But I do think that some NGOs were leading them by their noses and influencing them. And I think some Jewish billionaires were working on the other side of the fence.
I think the whole thing was meant to import middle eastern turmoil in an exhibitionist sort of way onto our soil for the specific purpose of influencing government policy. Which they were successful in doing to some extent.
Nothing really much different than the typical problem, reaction, solution shenanigans that have historically been invoked by special interests on both sides. They basically act in synergy to encourage the general public to just hurry up and pick a side and to pay no attention to what's actually going on as a consequence governmentally.
My thoughts on that whole thing are complex and I've purposely stayed out of pretty much all of those threads on here just because I do read through them and see them as just an extention of the same purposeful toxicity for the purpose of achieving the same ends. Import, Divide and Conquer. It's one of the oldest, most successful plays in the book.
And it's so easy to achieve because people who participate in coercion do not often understand their role in it. And they absolutely know nothing at all of the consequence of participating in it.
