The Right comprehends the Left but never vice versa

Nov 26, 2016 by Jill

by Prudence Dailey, The Conservative Woman:

The smug self-satisfaction of the liberal elite has one again been manifested on last week’s edition of Radio 4’s Any Questions by Irish feminist author Eimear McBride who, when asked whom she would like to talk to in a lift and what she would say, responded ‘Nigel Farage: Please be a better person than you are’. To understand the full extent of the crassness of this remark, you also need to know that Mr Farage was a fellow panellist on the same programme.

I think we can be reasonably confident that Mr Farage would not have felt the need go and have a little cry in the gents afterwards, but Miss McBride’s moral superiority is nonetheless breath-taking. Be a better person than you are? What evidence has Miss McBride that Mr Farage is not a good person? Has he been caught in flagrante with his secretary? Pushing little old ladies out of the way in the queue at Tesco? Spitting in someone else’s pint?

So far as I am aware, Mr Farage has been charged with none of these offences, but with the far greater atrocity of daring to challenge openly the narrative of right-thinking progressives. The utter disdain of the liberal elite for those who happen to think (for example) that the impact of immigration on the ability of many low-earning men to find a job which pays enough to support their families is of greater concern than the (non-existent) ‘gender pay gap’ between those in elite professions, has already helped to deliver Britain from the EU (almost), and the USA to President-elect Trump.

It is possible to disagree with a person profoundly and to think that he is utterly misguided, while still believing in his fundamental decency and good intent. Touching and unlikely friendships can be formed across the political divide, such as that between Tory gentleman Jacob Rees-Mogg and youthful SNP firebrand Mhairi Black: such mutual respect speaks well of those involved. And yet it is increasingly the case that those on the progressive Left regard those of conservative inclinations as not only wrong but wrong-headed; and not only wrong-headed but evil.

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