The Left somehow sees the war against Islamo-fascism as an extension of the civil rights movement; as some type of black (e.g., Muslims) against white (e.g., the West) conflict; the usual “rich vs. poor” story.
It's not rich/poor at all. It's "us" vs. "the other" (with "us" as the eternal xenophobic bad guy and "the other" as the pure and righteous downtrodden revolutionaries). In the United States the Black/white divide is the most common one used by the Left (and the "palaeo" Right) for this purpose.
If you want to see how little poverty and wealth have to do with anything, note that wealth Blacks are not reviled but have been encouraged since the days of W.E.B. DuBois' "talented tenth" to contribute their resources for the sake of the Volk (a form of "class collaboration" all liberals decry in the historical example of Mussolini and Italy). Meanwhile, midwestern dirt poor whites who hate the rich, bankers, etc., are attacked as dangerously incipient fascist "rightwing regresso populists" who won't rest until they've hanged every Jew to a lamppost and replaced Federal Reserve notes with Monopoly money.
See? It's not class it all. It's almost an incarnation of a metaphysical concept with "the other" = "the holy" (haqadosh).
It's ironic to consider that just over one hundred years ago the ancestors of today's "dangerous rightwing extremists" were voting for William Jennings Bryan and Eugene V. Debs and the ancestors of today's coastal poofter aristocrats were pouring their considerable wealth into the coffers of William McKinley.
Hey . . . maybe William McKinley was the Secret Ruler of the World back then!
"Meanwhile, midwestern dirt poor whites who hate the rich, bankers, etc., are attacked as dangerously incipient fascist "rightwing regresso populists" who won't rest until they've hanged every Jew to a lamppost and replaced Federal Reserve notes with Monopoly money.
See? It's not class it all. It's almost an incarnation of a metaphysical concept with "the other" = "the holy" (haqadosh)."
Food for thought. Like why middle class southerners are despised as reactionaries while selfish, rich West and East Coast libs are touted as examples of social responsibility. Altogether, very well written.