Understanding Intellectual Leftists -- all talk and poor results -- like ranchers with big hats and no cattle

Ordinary people live in reality.  Intellectual leftists live in a world of words. Virtue is difficult in the real world.  But virtue-signaling with words is easy -- talking the “politically correct” way mandated by the intellectual "in crowd". The intellectual’s skill consists mainly of manipulating words, which can conceal reality, when used improperly. Intellectual verbal skills are perfect for self-deception. Leftists have many hypnotizing words, such as diversity, inclusion, and equity, with which to deceive themselves.  They are trained in the art of self deception.  The ordinary person is constantly being lectured and disparaged by intellectuals in academia, and those who have graduated.