New Founding Fathers of America

In an alternate reality of the United States of America, a group calling themselves the New Founding Fathers of America, or sometimes New Founding Fathers, took over and reinstated themselves as the new government. They allegedly brought the country into a new era of prosperity by reducing the crime rates and increasing patriotic fervor. Of course, they supposedly accomplished this by their most infamous measure, The Purge.

Background
It is not fully understood how the New Founding Fathers of America established control over the government, but it is implied within The Purge and its sequel The Purge: Anarchy that it was the result of rich and influential but corrupt individuals coming together to create a form of population control, as well as reinforce their economic and national strongholds. By allegedly enforcing this policy of the Purge, they create a false stability by lower crime and unemployment rates. Of course, given the nature of the series and their actions revealed in Anarchy, such statistics are not to be taken at face value.

Philosophy
As noted on the page for the event itself, the New Founding Fathers established the Purge as an attempted means of catharsis for the American people. On one night a year, from 7 PM to 7 AM, all crimes (barring those that directly affect the NFFA themselves, naturally), including murder, are legal. As part of their philosophy of the matter, the Purge will help those under the New Founding Fathers of America to free themselves of their nastier urges and tendencies, which, in turn, will allegedly reduce rates of crime and poverty in the process. This is encouraged through NFFA propaganda and strict consequences for those who attempt to go beyond the rules of the Purge, such as directly attacking government officials and using explosives above Class 4-namely, death by hanging (also a punishment for dissidents).

Direct Action
The Purge: Anarchy, however, reveals that there are more people who refuse to participate in the Purge than initially understood, and that the killing rates are not as high as they seem. To ensure a "successful" Purge, i.e. one that results in a high body count, the New Founding Fathers of America dispatch military groups consisting of SWAT-level soldiers and tractor-trailers armed with heavy weapons to track down and capture people from lower-income homes and neighborhoods to execute as a part of ensuring the Purge "cuts down on poverty".