When I did my stint in the off-road world covering landuse issues, I saw the same dissonance. It’s part and parcel of libs.
I really believe it is ‘the’ defining characteristic when it comes down to it. Any subcategory of lib...enviro, homo, anti-war, hippie...can you think of a single one that does not religiously adhere to doublethink? I can’t.
Such is not the thinking of rational minds and so Mike Savage (Though I’m not a fan) nailed it perfectly. Liberalism is a mental disorder.
The libs are hard at work as we speak trying to get people like the average freeper classed as such. The difference is most of us can prove rational thought based on fact. A lib can only spin and quote another lib’s opinion on any given topic.
I think that explains why something like Islam, which one would logically think is antithetical to leftist views, finds a place on the left. But logic isn't the glue that binds them it is their common enemy on the right and common sense itself. It becomes apparent that views in common are not their fundamental measure of acceptance. It's the lust for power and the willingness to defy logic and common sense that allies the sometimes disparate groups that make up the left.