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[Douglas Carpenter]

20. perhaps I have a loftier view of human nature - but sometimes I think many disagreements are one

big misunderstanding. Of course that doesn't mean all disagreements with everyone. Like Thomas Franks argued in his wonderful book, What's the Matter with Kansas a lot - not all - but a lot of working class right-wingers which I suspect accounts for most Freepers are driven by a misguided sense of class struggle. Rather than rebellion against the power of class favoritism and privilege they have been bamboozled to react against the "liberal elite" Just as in earlier times working class anger was channeled and still is into institutions such as Xenophobia, racism and anti-Semitism. I think working class right-wingism is usually to a very large extent a misguided form of class struggle.