The Terrible Reality of Piers Morgan…

Insulting Piers Morgan is like whipping a masochist. He welcomes it. He thrives off it. It actually makes him stronger because he gets the attention that makes him successful. The only effective way to beat Piers would be to stop reading, watching or engaging with him, but this is a task that must be done be done collectively. An individual is a drop in an ocean of bile.

Piers Morgan is a hairy pink glove puppet, grotesquely inflated with self-righteousness and egotism. His politics, in essence, are whatever is self-serving; whatever, in other words, that will allow him to suck up to richer and more powerful people while also allowing him to grandstand as a bold moral voice. As a simpleton he has little idea of how to argue with intelligent people, and as a cog in a machine devoted to producing entertainment for the idle or idiotic he has never had to improve.

Today, he was arguing with Ash Sarkar of Novara Media; a successful little bandwagon for Corbynite polemic. The theme of the “debate” was Donald Trump’s visit to the UK and the protests that Ms Sarkar and others are promoting.

As a simpleton, Morgan has (a) an extremely superficial conception of people who disagree and (b) an overreliance on accusations of hypocrisy or double standards rather than a focus on what might be true and false or right and wrong. Thus, he charged Ms Sarkar with ignoring the misdeeds of her “hero” Barack Obama. Sarkar had a simple response to this: she was not a liberal, or even a social democrat, but a “literal communist”.

A smarter man would have seen this as a golden rhetorical opportunity. They could have pointed that in every case where its implementation has been pursued, communism has led to far worse human welfare abuses than Trump’s border policies. They could have pointed out that in every communist state that has ever existed, protests against allied powers would have ended in arrests if not executions. They could have noted the peculiarity of “communist” being an acceptable term to claim for oneself when “fascist” (which, even if one is willing to accept – as I am – that the Nazis were exceptionally evil also could have been applied to Mussolini and, perhaps, Franco, who were less destructive than many communists) would have one exiled from public life. They could have wondered why it is that Jeremy Corbyn, who is often described as believing in a kind of Scandinavian social democracy, is so often surrounded by “literal communists”.

Morgan didn’t. Seeing an open goal, he lashed the ball ten metres wide, huffing impotently about Barack Obama. If Britain should decline into a swamp of socialism and Third-Worldism one can hardly be surprised when such incurious, unprincipled and egotistic men and women have been guiding its national conversations.