Writing in an American context Joseph Epstein perfectly described the modern
Canadian Liberal mentality in a 1985 article entitled “True Virtue” in the New York Times Magazine.
He called them “people who are extremely confident about their own virtue and whose spectacular confidence nicely feeds their general feeling of superiority … if only you will give them the opportunity to demonstrate it … I think of them as ‘virtucrats’, for they are empowered by the unfaltering sense of their own virtue.”
He described a virtucrat as anyone “who is certain that his or her political views are not merely correct, but deeply, morally righteous in the bargain.”
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