The madness of the modern Left

Is examined by John C. Wright.  We're at a stage where the idiocy, the lies, the madness is so overwhelmingly obvious, I'm not sure what to do.  That a sizable majority of Americans, political leaders, media personalities, and even religious leaders have embraced the dumb, the lie, the madness just makes you realize how such horrible things we read about in history happened.  We often shake our heads at the zealous crusaders, the fanatical witch hunters, the bloodthirsty conquistadors, the racist slavers, the Nuremberg mobs, the Red Square revolutionaries, and we wonder how?  How could rational people fall into things which, even then, looked stupid and wrong, and in hindsight seem beyond madness and the denial of all reality?  Please read Mr. Wright's piece.  Then it will make perfect sense.