Current progressivism strikes me as an obnoxious, new priest-class, with nothing deep to offer other than what they make up each day … for the rest of us to follow (to paraphrase Justice Scalia).
And, to follow that thought – I think that most people have an innate desire for some sort of religion. The West is now mainly secular, but I don’t believe that means that the part of the human psyche that wishes to believe has magically vanished and has been replaced by reason. Faith has been transferred from God to progressive politics, which has, as you noted, its own priestly caste. And its own devils (the US, Israel, capitalists), holy texts, sacred rituals (the protest marches during the Bush era) and even indulgences in the form of carbon credits. It is essential to profess ones faith as loudly and frequently as possible and damn all unbelievers as not only misguided, but evil and base.
