The 'rats are about power and control. The democratic socialists of today would've been first in line to sign up with the National Socialists party back in 1930s Germany... Same basic ideas and ideals regarding enforced conformity, just repackaged for the new era.
They did back then too. It’s a little bit of American history that most hardly know about or want to forget. Like the Race Riots/Wars and the Northern Migration in America. If American history was really taught in American more Trumps would be elected and demonrats would never be elected again.