Manu Joseph: Why ‘liberals’ are often bad ambassadors of good ideas
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Since Wednesday, American intellectuals have tried to guess why Americans voted Donald Trump to power, even though they had discouraged them. They have given a host of reasons, except one.
Just how annoying they often are. Mostly, they never say anything wrong, but the problem is their sophistication and self-righteousness, and the banal smugness of their view that humans should be moral. I do not know Trump’s constituency well, but Western ‘liberals’ form a monoculture across the world.
They usually speak the same way and of the same things. They probably even got their vanity degrees from the same colleges, and have the same intolerance of any view that deviates from their theology. From what I have seen of the type in my country, they are the worst ambassadors of human decency, and of that beautiful idea—the strong must protect the weak.
Now that Trump, a man accused of corruption and sexual assault, has prevailed over the liberal campaign, does it mean more than half the American electorate is sick? This is what liberals would have us think. Or is it that the evangelists of fine human qualities are making those very qualities look bad? This they do not accept. Maybe they don’t see it, like the many other things they do not.
Some of them are annoying for no fault of theirs. When you state some noble things, you inevitably end up irritating people. For instance, beneficiaries of inequality who write angry essays against inequality.
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