This actually perfectly exemplified my experience with leftists. It's almost without fault in its representation, in fact.

They never answer a direct question with a direct response. It's always some kind of joke, misdirection or feigned misunderstanding. You can ask the same direct question a myriad of different ways, but you'll never get a direct answer because a direct answer would show just how vacuous their beliefs truly are.

Leftist ideology requires a veritable tower of babel of newspeak to justify their ever shifting belief system. Because the content of their beliefs aren't what they're arguing for. They're arguing for their control over you. Because they think they're better than you, in spite of all the evidence to the contrary.