...(I agree, BTW). Your assertion reminds me of something I heard a long time ago; it might have been on PBS. The historical claim was that "in the USA, even the Catholics are Protestant". If you look at the way that conservative Catholicism has allied itself with institutional power in this country, particularly in the revolving door think-tank-to-government system, it becomes self-evident. Many of those conservative and far-right voices dump on the poor and marginalized just as much (if not more) than the traditional WASP American business caste. They completely ignore their Church's own teachings about the Social Gospel, which cannot simply be hand-waved away as irrelevant by any serious disciple. Here I am especially thinking of organizations like the Heritage Foundation and the Acton Institute, which in recent years have taken on an explicitly Catholic tone.
As for liberal Catholicism, it is largely marginalized, particularly in the leadership of the Church. There is also a disconnect--a huge gulf, in fact--between the laity and the clergy in Catholicism these days. It doesn't help matters that the laity is often more educated and accomplished than the clergy. Gone are the days when the latter were the "princes of the Church". 
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