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Originally Posted by Isaiah 7:14

"But it’s in his reasoning for Corbyn that Sheeran gives us a dread glimpse of the future. Corbyn cares. Not Corbyn is right about tax or Corbyn has better ideas for solving the housing crisis. No, he cares. He emotes in an appealing way. He is for things that are good, against things that are bad, and makes us feel warm and fuzzy. When this is your politics, when good intentions trump policy impact, when the world is made up of the caring and the callous, you will be drawn to the swaggering, contentless radicalism of a Jeremy Corbyn or a John McDonnell. Corbynism is a spasm of moral superiority masquerading as a cult of personality pretending to be a movement for social justice. "

Caring absolves you of the need to show judgement, grace, or moral intelligence. Caring is a licence to behave any way you want to whomever you don’t like.

Just as the hard-right is made up of radicals who have convinced themselves they are traditionalists, the hard-left is home to conservatives who believe themselves to be subversives. Look how they flirt with the symbols and rhetoric of 20th-century totalitarianism. Jeremy Corbyn is not so much a leader as a comforting figure of righteous inertia. He doesn’t challenge, take uncomfortable decisions, take any decisions at all for that matter. He cares and suddenly that’s enough.




Source: Current ish of The Spectator

All true.