What liberals cling to

Mickey Kaus spazzes because, it turns out, as a Marxist, it turns out he's condescending like Obama. Being condescending is inherent to being a Marxist because of the belief that the cultural "superstructure" is determined by the economic "base"--i.e., if people had well-paying jobs and no economic anxiety, they wouldn't "cling" to silly beliefs in things like God and religion. His easy test for whether you're a "Vulgar Marxist" in this sense: (1) Do you believe China can remain Communist as it becomes capitalist; (2) Do you believe Islamic fundamentalism will fade when its adherents have better economic conditions. If you tend to think yes to both, then you're likely to think Obama was right that working class folks will think differently about cultural issues once they're better-paid.

Aside from the obvious problem that there isn't much of a correlation between poverty and belief in God and/or guns (you're telling me NRA lobbyists don't have food in their bellies?), this also assumes that the well-off don't have a cultural superstructure of their own. According to the Marxist account, we don't "cling" to anything because we have the enlightenment that comes with privilege! But rich urbanites cling to all kinds of silly things (not least of which is the belief that they know everything.) A short list of them can be found here.