"I don't speak for anyone else on the left, but I don't think that at all"
I know that is a fact because when a liberal finally understands economics they either become a conservative or libertarian. There is just no way to stay a liberal and know economics unless you only study Marx or possibly Keynes.
Well..... I take that back. One of the greatest minds of our time, Thomas Sowell, was a hard core Marxist. He attended and got degrees in several colleges but one of the colleges he attended was in Chicago where Milton Friedman taught. If you are not familiar with either Sowell or Friedman then it would be worth your while to look into them. Friedman as since passed away but he also was one of the greatest minds of our time.
Anyway, Sowell took Friedman's class and still remained a Marxist. What changed him is he went to work for the government and saw just how ineffective all of the government programs are. Not one of the government programs that was created to help people have ever done what they were created for. He realized that if that was true for our government then it could not possibly work in a Marxist government. That is when he realized free market economics/Capitalism is the best economic system to lift more people out of poverty than any other system.
Democrats HATE Capitalism and HATE freedom. They think the government must take complete control over corporations because they are all evil. The problem is that it is the government that is evil and only some corporations are evil. Dems and leftists also want to make everyone live and think according to what they want them to be. And now if if they don't they cancel them
The KKK has a very long history with the Democrat Party. Why they are now Republican (but not conservative) makes me wonder if they also believe the propaganda of the left that all Republicans are racist. There is no way that you can believe in freedom for all and then turn around and say except for those guys. If one isn't free then none of us are free. If you don't believe that then you are not a conservative or a libertarian and the KKK does not believe that. Freedom and as much as possible is the extreme right position, not racism. Racism is actually not even political because you can find racists in the right, the left, the center, the up, the down, the all around. That is why the KKK can go from Democrat to Republican and back or anywhere. The are an infection.