You may need to cut Broadway Joe a little slack, nemo. He's a lot older now and he's probably finding it tougher to bag younger skanks, like Lady Gag-Ah, these days, don'tcha know. Joe's thirsty desperation might be unduly influencing him to say things he don't really mean ... but, then again, maybe he is just a leftist pig, like you say.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence