[rabscuttle385]

It is incessant and insatiable. It knows no bounds or sense of proportion. It is a creepy, all-consuming fetish.

[Mogwai]

Here comes the puny pragmatist platoon, Rabs. Hear their battle cry: “Hail, the heroes McQueeg and McLinds! They would nationalize one fewer bank than the Democrats!”

BTW, the joke is on Linds with his “little bit pregnant” jape; it uncomfortably (for him) suggests “a little bit socialist” given the context.