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The only question left is why "rational" people believe it and the answer is that to reject it is to stand as an open rebel. A huge group of people wish there was a sane progressivism they could follow so pretend there is one because facing that there isn't is too painful
I do know the desire for a sane progressivism. But it seems almost everything you've said could be said about any ideology, that they cohere and take over institutions to serve their ideology. Progressives took education & entertainment. Conservatives took church & judiciary.
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