A BROBDINGNAGIAN AFFECTATION

It behoves us rational folk to recognise talent when we see it.

The socialist left have become past masters at NEWSPEAK...that is; the ability to take ones own position and twist it in such a way as to use it to damn ones opposition.

Take Rachel Sylvester for example....here resides a model citizen of left-wing-world journalism whose raison d'etre is to push the benefits of emotionalism over logic which many in the left regard as so 'last century' (post-modernism hey!) and have been at the forefront of pushing the 'what-is-truth' (relativity) movement, making the case that excess 'emotionalism' (prejudice is an emotional position) and an opposition to 'truth' is what drove many to vote against their betters in both the Brexit move and Trump in America:

In this year of the demagogue, Donald Trump tweeted his way to victory in the US while his mini-me, Nigel Farage, shaped events in Europe and then became the face of Britain abroad. The photograph of the US president-elect and the former UK Independence Party leader smiling in the gold and diamond-studded Trump Tower lift was the image that defined the past 12 months. Marine Le Pen is waiting in the wings in France, hoping to capitalise on the anti-establishment mood. Emotion has trumped intellect, and prejudice overwhelmed truth, as populism goes mainstream.

These are the same people who fly in on private aeroplanes to rail against the common people flying excess air-miles and damaging the planet with their selfishness...they rail against 'capitalism' from one of their many private properties scattered around the globe, use Trumps lack of personal tax paying status to smear his character while their own fortunes sit in tax havens around the globe,  call Trump a hater because he indulges in locker-room sexist banter (not excusing bad behaviour here) all the while protecting and ignoring shocking behaviours on the part of Democratic Presidents and community 'leaders'. I could go on ad infinitum, but you get the hypocrisy.

It takes a special form of a whitewashed conscience (or none at all) to be able to publicly pontificate on those issues that you know you are guilty of (or worse) without a sense of shame.

I have no doubt that all politicians, irrespective of their affiliations do these things, but within the new-left it appears to have reached Brobdingnagious proportions.