...it is important to be in harmony with whatever group they identify with, and everything else is secondary.
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The definition of *in harmony* changes daily, if not hourly. Transgress once and you become suspect. After that, everything is scrutinized for correctness and the poor leftist is soon a non-person, if not an outright enemy.
LOL, it made me laugh, you nailed it.
And that is the thing.
Like the American Communists being totally against getting involved in WWI until the Nazis launched Operation Barbarossa, and in seconds, without any prompting or coordination, they all did a 180 and began noisily advocating for the USA to get involved in the war.
It is why Cognitive Dissonance is so prevalent on the Left. They have to be able to stay in conformity with the “Hive Mind”, and any rationalization or justification formulated for a given situation has to live in the same space as one that may be completely at odds with it.
And we wonder why they appear to be deranged. It is because, often, they are.