I think Piketty makes some good points. But I still think any account of the woeful separation between the Democratic Party and the common people which ignores

I think Piketty makes some good points. But I still think any account of the woeful separation between the Democratic Party and the common people which ignores the rise of the pro-life movement has to be incomplete. Piketty thus misrepresents those who are concerned about the prevalence of destructive beliefs among the working class: >“The problem” with the story of a bottom-up defection “is not just that it depends on the notion that the disadvantaged classes are by their very essence permanently racist...” But racism, while extant, is not the most significant ideological issue that separates the elites from the working class, nor can it reasonably explain their disagreements with Democrat policy -- current anti-racist policy is laughably weak, and elites are not consistently anti-racist. That award must certainly go to religion, not racism. That an elite who bemoans the disconnection between the elites and the working class could write a book about ideology which largely ignores the predominant ideology among the working class in Western countries is painfully ironic. Ignore this correlation at your peril: https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/FT_18.11.07_howFaithfulVoted_vote-for-House2.png https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/FT_18... One could argue, of course, that the pro-life movement has been cultivated and manipulated for the benefit of capital. But it would be better to actually write the argument. Such a key step should not be left as an exercise to the reader.