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A couple of weeks ago, an article published in The Daily Guardian newspaper that argued how PM Modi was working hard during the coronavirus pandemic, was attacked by liberals. They didn’t attack it for the content, but all of them went on to ‘fact check’ and ‘expose’ that this newspaper was not the same as The Guardian newspaper of the UK – a claim that was never made in the first place. The liberals basically ended up betraying how desperately they want to prove that ‘foreign media’ was only with them, not with Modi. It’s primarily a subset of the colonized mindset, I must add here.

The same mindset was reflected yesterday when these folks yet again appeared desperate to run down an article that was published in Gulf News, a ‘foreign’ media and written by a US-based foreign policy expert Dr. John Hulsman, a ‘foreign’ name, who had some words of praise for the Modi government. Essentially, the desi liberals just can’t let anything dilute or blunt this ‘foreign’ part of their strategy. They are desperate to get a helping hand from their western counterparts, nay, maai-baaps, because now that’s their last hope against Modi.

This hope that a messiah from a foreign land will come and displace the local false god has manifested on many occasions, not just these two that I’ve pointed out above. We had seen the liberal jubilation on various occasions even if a local municipality in some US state or European country passed a resolution against CAA. The same was seen during the ‘farmer protests’, this time even more brazenly, when foreign leaders were asked to intervene. All of these interventions, even when from a former porn star, were cheered and welcomed by the desi liberal and woke crowd.

The crudest form of this hope was when many among these desi liberals and the ‘wokes’ openly wished that China ‘crushed’ India during the Galwan valley face-off. It was yet another manifestation of yearning for a messiah who will come from a foreign land and establish the true order and religion in the failing society.

This need for a foreign messiah is so ubiquitous that they have been cheerleading a white-skinned foreign national named Audrey Truschke to whitewash Aurangzeb’s crimes when so many brown historians have been available for the same service. Essentially, whether to clean old sh*t, or to spread new sh*t, desi liberals now need some essential foreign help because their domestic heroes have been failing.

The love and support expressed by the liberals for Twitter in the wake of the latest stand-off between the Modi government and the microblogging website is a manifestation of the same mindset. A US-based company is seen as an ally in defeating the heathens. It is not about free speech or democracy at all.

Liberals supported such principles when social media platforms came up, but they soon realized that it doesn’t work that way. They have become self-aware; they have come to the conclusion that they don’t have any principles, but only privileges, which they must preserve and protect. Since then, they have turned into ‘wokes’ who argue that ‘free speech is racist’ and ‘free speech is killing us’ (these are real thoughts expressed by modern age liberals) and for whom democracy is flawed if the favorite leader is not winning.

The current stand-off with Twitter (and there will be with other big-tech media companies too) is not at all about electoral politics. It’s not about the BJP IT cell or Congress toolkit. It’s about this mindset. Whether the foreign messiah prevails and heathens are ‘civilized’, we will see.