Is it wrong to have principles or ideals?

As 2015 comes to an end there are hundreds of articles by pundits and 'intellectuals', giving a synopsis of events in the year gone by and their interpretation thereof. While liberals write voluminous articles on every subject we can think of conservatives write very little. This is as true in the US as it is in India. The New York Times is known to be leftist, as a cartoon by the Republican Senator, Ted Cruz so aptly illustrates, and an article in the paper lists a number of cracks that appeared in liberalism in 2015. The biggest problems were in Europe. Greece and Spain voted for left wing parties while many in France voted for the far right National Front. In Britain the Scottish Nationalists won big in Scotland and there is a danger of Britain leaving the EU. Angela Merkel's decision to admit 1 million Muslim migrants into Germany has provoked a furious backlash. In the US, Donald Trump leads the Republican race, making outrageous statements, while Black Lives Matter shut down a shopping mall and an airport terminal over shooting of black men by police in the US. The article ends optimistically saying," It is wise to bet on the current order, in other words, and against its enemies and rivals and would-be saboteurs." Is it? Liberals are so arrogant in their moral superiority, so offensive in their criticism of anyone they brand as 'conservative' and so intolerant of any view that does not echo their own egotistical interpretations, that they are as fanatical as ISIS. An Indian who prides himself on his liberalism writes that the difference between liberal and conservative is between " open minded versus close minded ". " To my mind, the liberal is defined by a lack of ideology," he writes. That is precisely the problem. The liberal has no principle, no ideal and no truth to hold on to. He is prepared to compromise with anyone or any lie to prove his lack of ideology. When Neville Chamberlain signed a peace deal with Hitler he was told," Your name will go down in history as a statesman who saved civilisation from destruction." Dozens of students at Yale, an Ivy League University in the US, signed a petition to revoke the First Amendment of the Constitution, which guarantees freedom of speech, because they are against criticism of other views. In Finland, there were riots in a normally peaceful town of Kempele when a 14 year old girl was raped by an Afghan migrant. Sharia courts in Britain are forcing women to stay locked in violent marriages, a study showed, prompting a furious columnist to question why feminists do not object to these courts. It is the liberals' tendency to excuse terrorists as a tiny minority, extremely perverted rapists as juvenile and to mock any dissent as loonies, deluded by a false feeling of 'victimhood', that will be the death of liberalism. There will definitely be a series of extremely violent wars in the world. Liberals will be responsible.