> "I never understood how leftist and heavily "progressive" ideas automatically get a free pass as being fundamentally correct..." that's pretty easy to explai

> "I never understood how leftist and heavily "progressive" ideas automatically get a free pass as being fundamentally correct..." that's pretty easy to explain: liberalism is grounded in inclusivity, and conservatism in exclusivity, which is a tension that lives in each of us. and from a young age, we are educated that sharing and caring for others is good, and being selfish is bad. we tend to equate things that are good with being correct. note that progressivism doesn't lay on this spectrum at all, as it only advocates progress over stagnation (a different facet of conservatism). the philosophical positions of these ideologies are different from their political implementations, of course.