Of all the troubles which afflict the Western World currently, one strikes me to be the comparative absence of reasonable viewpoints from the airwaves and social media.
Last week, for example, a backbench and irrelevant Conservative MP made a comment that only a millionaire-by-family-not-skill could make about food backs. Cue mass outrage. The problem is, that the mass outrage itself gave him further coverage. This in turn enhances his political capital, to the extent that this man with no real life experience is being talked of as a potential Prime Minister. He is being talked of in this way ahead of, well, reasonable and knowledgeable people. And that is a problem.
The problem is partly to do with those creating the mass outrage. Why not just ignore him? Is a barrel load of tweets really likely to make him change his mind? In fact it will likely only entrench views – including among those who had some sympathy with him (who will now, inevitably, have lots of sympathy with him).
There is an issue here also for what is described still as the “mainstream” media. They too like to highlight extreme views, often pitting two extreme views against each other. What about reasonable, knowledgeable, well-thought-out views? And what about the people who hold them? In fact, this dash to the extremes merely sidelines (ahem, even discriminates against) people who have educated themselves, have knowledge, and behave reasonably.
It is a serious challenge, and one which needs to be addressed by all of us.
Ian James Parsley 
The problem is that in all walks of life ‘senior people’ are protected by clouds. people that spin whatever they have to to protect those above from seeing what is happening to those below and alternatively tell those below that all above are working hard for them so that never the twain shall meet.
Only by breaking through this protective layer by whatever means possible even vainly hoping they might read the odd tweet for themselves can people hope to get change, in the upper echelons silence means acceptance and as long as they cant hear, everything is fine
The challenge should be for the above mentioned person to spend a day in a food bank and meet those who need the facility only then will he find that it is not community resilience improving and see the reality of life.
To be fair Jacob Rees Mogg’s view was that it was uplifting to see that people help other people in need. Which other people have said in the past.
And also he did make most of his own money (as opposed to his wife’s) himself in the city before becoming an MP so “not skill” and “no life experience” is not very fair either. Moreover he has children which also gives life experience, though one is not allowed to say this any more (I say that as someone without any).
I am not saying he should be PM but I don’t think he is really some kind of rentier-income Bertie Wooster as you imply.
Anyway don’t you think all that mass outrage is a devalued currency now there is so much of it?