The class structure has been divided deliberately into two class struggles.
There is the economic and political class struggle, between the haves (ie the business oligarchy) and the have-nots, with the have-nots allied with the intellectual and artistic elements (educators, writers, filmmakers, etc.)
Then there is a phony struggle between the cultural classes: the anti-abortionists, gun nuts, antihomosexuals and religious fundies, who have been hornswoggled into seeing anyone who has a rational perspective as being an "elitist".
There are three basic issues in US politics: Rich vs. Poor, War vs. Peace, and Black vs White.
Actually it is not really Black vs White anymore (now that Jesse Helms has bit the dust) it is people who are capable of seeing Black and White people as being potentially equal and deserving, and those who cannot.
The elite vs non-elite and the culture wars are a diversion, created at great expense by the oligarchy and their propagandists in order to mask the above three divisions.
The "summer of love' has not one goddamn thing to do with the 2008 election. Neither does Jane Fonda