Carrying On From Last Night
Nov. 18th, 2016 10:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloIt feels as though all the energy has drained from the left while the right is buzzing.
After she interviewed the sparking young alt-right guy- Milo Yiannopoulos- on Channel 4 News last night, Cathy Newman turned to a young lefty activist. Where Milo was all ideas, ideas, ideas the lefty woman began her statement, "Um, I mean..." and the rest was similarly flaccid. One side has the wit and daring and the other has the jargon. It's no contest.
The left has occupied the intellectual and cultural high ground for a long time now and has grown lazy. Its wisdom is the received wisdom- a set of unexamined doctrines- passed as a package from brain to brain. It despises the opposition and no longer expects to be attacked by smart people- and when that happens it is totally unprepared.
After she interviewed the sparking young alt-right guy- Milo Yiannopoulos- on Channel 4 News last night, Cathy Newman turned to a young lefty activist. Where Milo was all ideas, ideas, ideas the lefty woman began her statement, "Um, I mean..." and the rest was similarly flaccid. One side has the wit and daring and the other has the jargon. It's no contest.
The left has occupied the intellectual and cultural high ground for a long time now and has grown lazy. Its wisdom is the received wisdom- a set of unexamined doctrines- passed as a package from brain to brain. It despises the opposition and no longer expects to be attacked by smart people- and when that happens it is totally unprepared.
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Date: 2016-11-19 09:19 am (UTC)I keep hearing that Sanders would have beaten Trump. I don't know if that's true, but I've little doubt that Hillary was the wrong candidate. I was reading an article by Dave Eggers yesterday where he was talking about going round the country before the election and talking to people who had happily supported Obama but had no enthusiasm for Hillary. I guess, in the event, a lot of those people didn't vote at all. Hillary- rightly or wrongly- was seen as an avatar for all that is wrong and hateful about the establishment. Eggers says he went through Pennsylvania and there were Trump posters everywhere and not a single one for Hillary. It was the same here for Brexit. Our part of the country was plastered in Leave posters and you never saw a Remain one. It's what I was trying to say about energy- sometimes all the enthusiasm is one way- and it's palpable. One side is all fired up and the other- though it may have similar numbers- is only lukewarm.