What motivates many Paulestinians, I think, is a romantic, idealist notion of “counterculture” - a lost Fountain of Youth full of Good vs. Evil combined with the inevitable process of aging and Gained Brains. It’s Socialism with adult reservations, hoping that, somehow, there’s a raging libertarian Movement out here somewhere they can just catch up with.
There was a contingent of medical marijuana folks at the GOP picnic a couple weeks back. All carrying RP signs. LOL