The notion that
people in or aiming for positions of power suffix words with 'ism' in order to confuse the public and give the impression that they are in the
know and the public
aren't.
'Do you think paleoliberalism is
superior to Hoxhaism? Oh, you wouldn't understand Eurocommunism. You're probably just an individualist follower of revisionist Zionism.'
'I think you're using ismism to look down on me.'
'Are you
really accusing me of
feminist egoism?'