This explains much!-----Progressives have always been collectivists (i.e. socialists, Marxists and communists).

Progressives have always been collectivists (i.e. socialists, Marxists and communists).

"Progressives have always been collectivists (i.e. socialists, Marxists and communists).
Until the fall of the USSR, collectivists generally followed the Stalinist/Orwellian model , the central premise of which is that the government is God, whatever it says goes without question and you will be forced to act as if it is true - even if it isn't - because to do what the government needs to do, 5 must be the answer.
2+2=5 because we say it is, comrade.
But inherent in Stalinist/Orwellian collectivism is the epidemic of cognitive dissonance it creates. Cognitive dissonance is a serious, debilitating mental illness in which mental discomfort (psychological stress) is experienced by a person who simultaneously holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values.
In short, no matter how many times a government tells you that the answer is 5, you can hold up your fingers and prove that is false.
Then came the Frankfurt School, postmodernism and the invention of cultural Marxism - and out of that was born postmodernist progressivism..."
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