What I have learned is that they have memorized the leftist cliches and slogans REALLY well.
One of the things which strikes me about this is how much the left denigrates rote memorization in education.
Then they spend substantial amounts of time teaching kids to parrot the leftwing line.
^^This!^^
I am the nonconformist of my family and many of my friends and I've learned the same thing whenever politics come up.
Learning today seems to be more a matter of memorizing data long enough to pass a test, rather than thinking something through from one end to the other and integrating that journey into one's being.
Politics, especially election year politics, is where this sort of limited programming comes to fruition for the programmers as the memorized data is incomplete and geared to allow emotion to carry what the facts cannot.
One look at "Global Warming", now aka "Climate Change", is all it takes to understand the template the programmers use, but there are so many others you'll trip over them with every step. The examples are everywhere now.