I say they didn't believe it because none of them ever understood their own beliefs or actions. Cognitive dissonance is probably the most common plague among the Progressive types, so they can simultaneously think they believed in those things and then continue to act in a completely opposite manner.
The same way they truly crow loudly about "I can't tell you how to live your life" and "bodily autonomy" and then turned around to scream about masks and vaxxes. They probably believed they believed those original statements, and probably still think they do.
But they don't. They've just convinced themselves they do to spare themselves thinking about their actions and dealing with the pain introspection would bring.
There are people who truly believed 'What we do in our bedrooms is none of your business', but those people weren't necessarily progressives - just people who had an opinion on an issue. Because your characterization of progressives is correct. The ideology requires hypocrisy, mental gymnastics and cognitive dissonance to even function. We're fully in agreement about that part.
I say they didn't believe it because none of them ever understood their own beliefs or actions. Cognitive dissonance is probably the most common plague among the Progressive types, so they can simultaneously think they believed in those things and then continue to act in a completely opposite manner.
The same way they truly crow loudly about "I can't tell you how to live your life" and "bodily autonomy" and then turned around to scream about masks and vaxxes. They probably believed they believed those original statements, and probably still think they do.
But they don't. They've just convinced themselves they do to spare themselves thinking about their actions and dealing with the pain introspection would bring.
There are people who truly believed 'What we do in our bedrooms is none of your business', but those people weren't necessarily progressives - just people who had an opinion on an issue. Because your characterization of progressives is correct. The ideology requires hypocrisy, mental gymnastics and cognitive dissonance to even function. We're fully in agreement about that part.