their obsession is beyond your comprehension because you do not think as they do.
endeavor to think like them.
Pretend you are a Leftist... breathe deep... let your intellect go numb...
endeavor to think that facts are less important than words, that thoughts MUST be consonant with Marxist historical progressivism to be considered valid, that theoretical ends justify any and all means AND excuse all real ends, that you and your leftist fellow-travellers really are the high-priests and prophets of the One True God of human destiny...
basically, take some crazy pills, dress up all in black, slap a pink triangle on your forehead, staple a triptych of Marx, Mao, and Stalin to your groin, wrap a rainbow ribbon tightly around your throat, and then goose-step around a campus quad shouting obscenities until you pass out from asphyxiation: The hallucinations you will then endure are the stuff of Leftist "reality"
Oh, brilliant! I am convulsed wtih mirth! Reminds me of our long-ago family dinner conversations....I miss the good old days.