The reason progressives are winning is FOR THE SAME REASON DEMOCRATS ARE ON THE SAME PAGE EVERY DAY about news positions - - COHESIVE TALKING POINTS THAT COME FROM ONE GROUP, ONE SOURCE AND OFTEN ONE PERSON...
Here's what they discovered: that you don't have to change the minds of citizens on issues (that takes too long and requires too much money and time). What you do to win is change the minds of the people who make the top decisions. Target ONE editor at a newspaper. Learn everything about him - send him 'ideas' that he will accept. Manipulate decision makers ONE AT A TIME. That's how they're doing it...
A Freeper mentioned a few weeks ago that the Left seems to operate like a "hive mind."
I think this is not only because of what they are hearing from the media, but also because generations of them have been indoctrinated by our colleges and universities (actually going back to just after the end of WWII).
The Left is brainwashed to see life through the commie prism. That is why (I suggest) when the Left started pushing the postmodern ideas of reality being the way you see it and your gender is based on how you feel, etc., those Americans who had been indoctrinated into Leftie thought understood it instinctively.
Embracing moral relativism was easy. It had already been forced into their very beings.