Liberalism and the majority

Subject: Liberalism and the majority.

Liberalism, what does it mean.
The concept of being liberal of being open minded and fair, of trying to understand the other persons point of view is a position any right minded person would subscribe to. But what if by being liberal you not only encompassed the social aspect but the financial one as well. 
Here liberalism has come to mean the Milton Friedman, Thatcherite concept of the free market, irrespective  of the social harm the liberal policy brings. Of limited government involvement, of the concept of the trickle down economy where the new found riches for the few would filter down and improve living standards for all. It was a myth but we bought it waiting patiently for the first signs of the trickle to start. 
It could of course be argued that the loosening of the financial constraints, a balanced national budget, which governments had previously thought necessary to stay solvent were suddenly thrown out and the era of unspecified debt began, offering credit on an almost universal basis to anyone and everyone regardless of their ability to repay. Credit cards and mortgage loans on little or no deposit and minuscule repayment interest rates ballooned the national debt leading to the derivative scandal where good and bad debt was packaged together to make the debt more palatable and tradable.  Liberal economics has meant that we now are burdened with trillions of unaffordable debt which can only be assuaged by quantitive easing, in layman terms,  printing money.
And what of the liberal themselves. One often finds them very illiberal if you disagree with their concept of what is right or wrong. Famously slamming someone with the indictment, racist, misogynistic, prejudiced, or plane bigoted, Their view of the world mustn't be challenged because they are on a crusade and we know how  crusaders feel immune from having to justify themselves.. 
Liberals make up a fairly small proportion of the society at large and yet they make up a large cohort of those who go into the business of gaining influence. Politics, charity organisations, media, the chair of the local committee, the list goes on. They disproportionately have at their disposal the levers of power to infiltrate our minds with their messages, mainly directed at the minorities in society who generally do well in having their plight exposed. These public awareness campaign to make us sympathetic with minority issues are important but are in danger of ignoring the problems of the growing  'left behind' section of the community. 
Is it any wonder, when the chance came at the Referendum the 'left behind' give the liberal consensus, exhibited by the politicians on immigration, rules and directives from Europe which pressured the 'rights issue', and the concern by the business community who were worried that the loss of access to the gravy train of the European Cartel would effect their businesses. 
Was it any wonder after listening to the clarion call of doom from most politicians, and the elite in society, is it any wonder they voted to come out if for no other reason than to be a bloody contrarian.
If the poor, undernourished physically and emotionally,  who under the austerity inflicted by the same people who cried doom would have non of it and if they still doggedly decry the tales of woe as scaremongering, is it any wonder that popularism in the form of that leviathan Boris Johnson carries so much weight. 
Since the Thatcher years the poor have been the recipients of lip service. Even in the Blair years it was largely lip service as Tony Blair tried to realign New Labour with the middle class to get elected. And as he was reelected each time, the trough into which the poorly educated working class had fallen, got deeper. The social ties and values which made being poor tolerable were deliberately broken by Thatcher and ignored by Blair.
This poorly articulated, bloody minded response to the problems of leaving the EU fall on deaf ears, they've heard it all before from this crowd concerned as they are with minorities but never it seems with the majority.