[rlmorel]

We all have, to some degree or other, been "one of those" in our youth.

It is because Leftism is ripe for acceptance of people who have limited life experiences, are not fully emotionally developed, or have limited intellectual capabilities.

It is so true, that old saying about how if you aren't a liberal at 16, you have no heart, and if if you aren't a conservative at age 40, you have no brain!

Freeper nathanbedford captured it perfectly in a concise nutshell in this post above at #20:

"...Leftists are often immune to reason or logic because their fixations are not logical but essentially emotional. The anomaly occurs when we understand that these people can be and often are of high intelligence and of high educational level as conventionally defined.

This anomaly is explained by the fact that intelligence is no defense to the seduction of liberalism any more than intelligence is a defense to narcissism. Actually, the animating driver of leftism is narcissism. Some call it the quest for power, I call it the urge to play God.

This is the primal urge of the ego, one identified early in the book of Genesis and one that is immune to logic, reason or the application of intelligence.

[9YearLurker]

Fair description of the leftist hard core.

But many who back them are simply blue staters who haven’t and don’t think it through and merely buy into the “nice people vote like this” ether that surrounds them.