It's ironic because there are so many elements of religion within the progressive ideology. Sometimes it is almost cult like.
That's one of the few things you've posted I agree with 100%.
I still remember being at Hooters Restaurant at Aloha Tower Market Place many years ago, when Bill Clinton's Lewinsky scandal broke. I forgot what brought the subject up -- maybe a news blurb was playing on the TV -- and I asked our waitress what she thought about the scandal.
She repeated almost verbatim what the MSM stations and papers were running: "It's just sex. Anyone else would have lied about it, too."
No matter what I thought about the scandal, the thing that struck me was how perfectly she parroted the answer. She didn't want to go into the details of him being the Top Official in the US lying under oath to the FBI, and then quibbling over the definition of "sex" -- "it depends on what the definition of 'is' is."
I doubt she'd even been told about all of that, and even if she had been, she'd formed, or memorized, her opinion.
Yes, it's a cult. People on "Team Liberal-Socialist-Progressive-Leftist-Democrat" get their talking points and conclusions from the "news", and that's all they need. Why delve deeper when the people you trust already gave you the bottom line?
This is not just a Leftist problem, but it sure does seem like they have a larger population of misinformed Lemmings than other political factions.
There are still Democrats who haven't heard a thing about Hunter's laptop, because their media sources are still refusing to report on it.