I have followed the exMormon subreddit for years. Over time I witnessed it going further and further left, to the point of crazy and I reduced my time on there.

My opinion is the Mormon church is partly responsible for creating these leftists. Please hear me out. As Jordan Peterson says, any organization can become too conservative, too rigid, too ossified, which leads to corruption, an unwillingness to change, and for its members can feel like living in a prison with few freedoms.

This happened with a bunch of scandals with Mormon higher-ups and their doctrines. It created a large ex-Mormon group. Most wanted just a little more freedom to live and to think for themselves. However, a subsection of the exMormons went even further, rejecting many good principles of the church, and ended up hard leftists. Social activists emerge either from the outside or from within and lead people to do stupid shit like we see in the video. People like the shooter may be a subgroup of the subgroup - willing to initiate violence, or he may be an opportunist attaching himself to the cause.

I have followed the exMormon subreddit for years. Over time I witnessed it going further and further left, to the point of crazy and I reduced my time on there.

My opinion is the Mormon church is partly responsible for creating these leftists. As Jordan Peterson says, any organization can become too conservative, too rigid, too ossified, which leads to corruption, an unwillingness to change, and for its members can feel like living in a prison with few freedoms.

This happened with a bunch of scandals with Mormon higher-ups and their doctrines. It created a large ex-Mormon group. Most wanted just a little more freedom to live and to think for themselves. However, a subsection of the exMormons went even further, rejecting many good principles of the church, and ended up hard leftists. Social activists emerge either from the outside or from within and lead people to do stupid shit like we see in the video. People like the shooter may be a subgroup of the subgroup - willing to initiate violence, or he may be an opportunist attaching himself to the cause.