The modern day social evangelist

Subject: The modern day social evangelist.

As a society our capacity for self flagellation  is immense. We twist and bend to acquiesce to opinions held about us, frightened to risk offence, we nod as people rail against our beliefs, laugh at our idiosyncrasies but wish to have their own idiosyncrasies, their own culture, their own religious observance respected and placed on a par with the indigenous arrangements which were virtually the only norm 50 years ago.
The television is a melting pot bringing together people from all walks of life who inevitably represent a particular opinion. They largely belong to a class of people educated and financially independent, who pontificate views which include the 'ideal' even if it is highly unlikely that their views are representative outside their particular social niche.
The unwashed majority are discussed as if they are a different species, they are an anachronism to the perceived philosophy of the great and good and whilst they garner sympathy they are accused of being their own worst enemy by not understanding what is good for them.
If immigration is a good thing because it subdues the latent bad, inherent in our own sense of worth by opening our eyes to other ways of doing things and that therefore the short jump to imagine we are indebted to the immigrant for setting us straight, well it's hardly conducive to winning friends and influencing people. And yet this is exactly what we are faced with on a daily basis through the plethora of punditry and advice.

We are told the NHS wouldn't run without immigrants and yet the Health Service, when I grew up in the 1940s, 50s and 60s was staffed from the cleaner through to the nurse the matron and the doctors by white 'home grown' individuals who seemed to me to represent the very best of society. With a population of around 45 million the hospitals and the old age care homes were a respite in times of need and all municipalities were tasked with providing and running them.. Housing was adequate and affordable when measured against a man's pay packet (no need for a wife to go out to work and neglect the children).  The respect for law and order meant that one Bobby (policeman) could control a crowd and of course people played the economic card by buying "only" what they could afford.

Mrs Thatcher changed all that and with Ronald Reagan began the consumerist society which has led us to the global society and the inherent need to ignore national difference for a manufactured global "must have regardless of the cost"
The rights of an individual to say no I don't agree to globalism or uncontrolled immigration is met by contempt and worse, ridicule and social exclusion.
The exemplar in all these things is the drip feed assassination of all that went before. In  its place, a wish washy idealism which excludes the reality of what we actually see around us. As we manifest the new Britain in as a series of exclusive societies growing and prospering upon  the fabric of a nation built on the foundations of those who in the 50s are now forgotten and even demonised, by the offspring of far away societies who would laugh at the liberalism of the modern day social evangelist.