Why 'liberals' are often bad ambassadors of good ideas

They may say all the right things but the preachy way they go about it works against their own cause

- Manu Joseph

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.