Both the Pauls have an “us and them†attitude, but their “us†side is so tiny that “them†is everyone else.”
I was at a convention a few years ago, and the Ron Paul supporters stormed in and filled the aisles, waving their signs and so on. It wasn’t exactly a protest, but it was sort of like that. In any event, the guy closest to me was yelling something to the effect of “Down with all of you Trostskyite” something or other. I don’t remember exactly what he said, but I remember clearly that he called the “them” ...Trotskyites.
I’m no defender of the establishment. And I live in a conservative state with a decent enough state GOP.
But are they really....Trotskyite?
Seriously?!
They were off by a word. The Trotskyism is not entirely incorrect here. To explain:
The type of socialism wanted by the Democrats is internationalist socialism, as espoused by the Socialist International, an organization of leftist political parties from around the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_International
Unlike national socialists, Nazis and fascists, the IS could best be called “anti-nationalists”. They hate the very idea of nations, patriotism, unique histories, cultures, languages, and ethnic groups. They crave a homogeneous blend of people with none of that, living in socialist districts of economic blocs that belong to a one world government.
Unlike Leninist-Marxists, who embraced the notion of “socialism in one country”, the Trotskyites want worldwide revolution to bring about universal socialist internationalism.
But there is a “new kid on the block”. The multinationalist corporationists. These dominate the leadership of the Republican party. Their constituents are few in number of extraordinarily wealthy, many of whom belong to the 30,000 Jeb Bush donors. And these MCs find allegiance with goals similar to the internationalist socialists.
Importantly, they are not socialists themselves, and see socialism as a collective of idiots. But they can imagine a one world government run by corporations. And they adopt socialist style ideas, like socialized medicine and retirement, as money saving ideas. That is, they do not pay taxes to anyone, but they like the idea of nations paying for their employees health care and retirement.
They also embrace open borders, to provide the cheapest possible labor for their corporations. If they could, they would advocate for the return of slavery.
Make no mistake, they also abhor America and Americans, have zero patriotism, yet crave our markets to sell their products, so are very pro-free trade. In a manner of speaking, they also want “the revolution” to take over the world.
They imagine themselves as the new hereditary nobility, which is just as loathsome as anything the internationalist socialists, fascists, and Trotskyites ever imagined.
So the man did have a pretty good grasp of things, yet was off by a word.