During the third and fourth season, it is revealed that only a certain faction from the future wants to see history changed.

Another faction wanted to use the army as a lever to push through higher taxes and a stronger central government.

One faction of Republicans wants to see an increase in spending on highway programs.

One faction wanted to keep on spreading the knowledge as they had before.

Both factions wanted to collect the family's extortion payments and control its other business.

Another faction wants to make something go wrong with the deep thermal bombs.

One faction wants people to vote so that voices demanding change are heard.

I wish you'd tell me what my faction, as you call it, does want.

One faction wanted to lynch the islanders out of hand.