The Koch brothers and associated organizations have also been known to fund both sides of extremist events and encourage them to fight each other. At a glance,

The Koch brothers and associated organizations have also been known to fund both sides of extremist events and encourage them to fight each other. At a glance, I would say pretty much all of today's hot button issues: abortion, race, gender equality, treatment of sex offenders, treatment of prisoners & released felons, terrorism, the current spate of sexual assault accusations... All of it has roots at a level where the rich and powerful benefit from keeping people fighting with each other and begin terrified of the next boogey man instead of paying attention to the "powers that be." And it's simply because the potential benefit of doing so is unbelievably high, it effectively has no ceiling: consolidation of power, finance, and resources as an end goal so that what, 8 people? control almost all the world's wealth, is a pretty compelling reason.