The group was started in the fifties, and has more or less been around even as an organized political party since then. I do not understand the ideology either. But, in a country of 315 million, you are going to have some crazies. I really hate the media exhortations that this is some significant group gaining members like wildfire. Hell, Charlotte was probably half their numbers, and the more names that come out, it is clear that most of them had to come from of state.