Good points 2×4.

I have long considered the modern minions of the left to be spoiled underachievers. They grew up on Mommy and Daddy’s money, went to a good school (that Mom and Dad paid for), were told all of their lives that they were “going places” and now are frustrated little brats.

They have an inflated sense of importance and have been given the impression that they are doing “important things” by their indulgent parents and undemanding educators. They lack the will to work, the mental discipline to rigorously examine their own positions (or anyone else’s). This goes a long way to explaining why so many end up in the “soft sciences” and that their response to every person that they disagree with is an ad-homineum attack.

Having raised five children to adulthood I would say most Progressives are stuck at 24-36 month point of child development. Witness Obama’s pouty responses to his opponents, he never argues his point from a position of logic, simply knocks down straw-men of his own creation.