Yes, Progressives have become mentally deranged. Their ideology rejects the notion of truth and just makes everything out to be a bunch of competing narratives/rhetoric. Habituation into this mindset makes them incapable of telling truth from falsehood. They end up just believing whatever "their" narrative is and disbelieving anything else (because their narrative tells them that all competing narratives are bad/alt-right/Russian disinfo/neo-Nazi/"right wing"/etc). They are literally this meme.
That's why I tell people - there's no point in trying to reason with, debate, argue with Progressives once they're brainwashed. What's effective is to ridicule them, humiliate them, make those around them know what cancerous tumours they are. Use their own tactics against them so long as it's justified to do so. Take their words and use them against them. And always be on the offensive.
You cannot use reason when the person you're trying to reason with has based their entire worldview on the premise that reason, fact, and logic are all false, racist, and evil concepts.
Yes, Progressives have become mentally deranged. Their ideology rejects the notion of truth and just makes everything out to be a bunch of competing narratives/rhetoric. Habituation into this mindset makes them incapable of telling truth from falsehood. They end up just believing whatever "their" narrative is and disbelieving anything else (because their narrative tells them that all competing narratives are bad/alt-right/Russian disinfo/neo-Nazi/"right wing"/etc). They are literally this meme.
That's why I tell people - there's no point in trying to reason with, debate, argue with Progressives once they're brainwashed. What's effective is to ridicule them, humiliate them, make those around them know what cancerous tumours they are. Use their own tactics against them so long as it's justified to do so. Take their words and use them against them. And always be on the offensive.
Just to echo your second paragraph:
You cannot use reason when the person you're trying to reason with has based their entire worldview on the premise that reason, fact, and logic are all false, racist, and evil concepts.