Leftism preys on the mentally weak, the disaffected, and the stupid. It targets them specifically for their gullibility and their need for acceptance.
It is easy to see why: leftism aka communism is an ideology of envy, hatred and destruction. No communists ever built a society, they simply infected a healthy society and took it over, removing everyone who resists them.
Leftism builds its numbers by appealing to those who would otherwise be considered failures and miscreants, coddling them and telling them they are superior to all those around them because of their loyalty to leftism. Whereas conservatives would tell a person without a job to stop being lazy, or a person who complains about hardship to stop being a baby, or a person who feels bullied to stop being a sissy, the leftists tell them it is everyone else’s fault: they are poor because of the rich, they are miserable because of the happy, they are twisted because of the mentally healthy, they are lonely because of the socially well-adjusted. That is why the levels of accepted perversion and criminality have no bounds on the Left.
And all they ask for in return is complete and unquestioning loyalty to the Left.
“Leftism builds its numbers by appealing to those who would otherwise be considered failures and miscreants”
DEI is the perfect example of this.