Everyone has at least a couple of friends or family members like this. They go into rants about Donald Trump and throw anything they can against the wall—usually without evidence—and then elevate themselves to some kind of higher moral ground from which they look down on you as a war criminal or someone who uses grape jam instead of raspberry preserves or something worse. Then comes the usual line about how disappointed they are, or how you are the only one in their circle who voted for Trump. “How could you?” Then they get in their BMW 9000 and drive off in a huff.
In fact, the Left has spent over a century portraying itself as the paradigm of virtue and sophistication, progress, and all that is right and good in the world. “Tolerance” used to be a word they threw around until they stopped being tolerant and moved on to their latest moral crusade. The Left has adopted politics as its new religion, along with a strange form of “scientism,” which consists largely of selectively choosing which facts to emphasize and which to ignore. There probably are not more than a handful of leftists who understand that science developed out of wonder about the universe and that the first “science,” as it were, was cosmology. God was never viewed as antithetical to science, and many early Enlightenment scientists were pastors. But I digress. I am here to talk about the Left’s obnoxious addiction to moral preening and the distortion of facts that serves that purpose.
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