He argues that far left and far right ideologies only share similarities in the vaguest sense in that they both oppose the liberal-democratic status quo, but the two sides both have very different reasons and very different aims for doing so. Choat uses the issue of globalization as an example. Both the far left and the far right attack neoliberal globalization and its elites, but have conflicting views on who those elites are, and conflicting reasons for attacking them: