The actual reason "liberals" went astray is their mistaken assumption that individual freedom requires a disconnection on individual action from its consequences, in other words that (to them) freedom to act is only real if you are immune from adverse consequences. This in turn leads to a collectivization of responsibility for consequences. And even though the starting point is individual freedom, the result is that you have to constantly make people whole after they screw up, which means taking from those who did NOT screw up and redistribute. This is completely logical from their point of view. It is NOT anti-intellectual per se. Indeed, much intellectual effort is expended on their side to show how people either 1) have no free will or 2) have free will but act in an evil way (destroying the Earth's climate, say) or 3) only have free will the sense of class or race consciousness (or whatever category you want to insert here). The issue is that in complex adaptive evolutionary systems (human societies being the ultimate example), disconnecting actions from their results is equivalent to destroying an ecosystem (as Hayek clearly saw) by rendering it incapable of adapting to changing conditions. Thus, intervention in the system leads to more intervention as it starts to go awry, leading eventually to a totalitarian system.

- Karl Gruner. YouTube comment, in Ayn Rand’s Devastating Critique of ‘Liberals’ by Elan Journo.