re: I don’t understand the progressive mindset

Yes. The culture has been purposely dumbed down, by many means. Schools are just one way. The entertainment, the food, the toothpaste... It all has the effect of dumbing down the masses, which is dangerous because most are only of moderate or poor intelligence in the first place. If people still talked today how we talked in this country a hundred years ago, many people wouldn't even comprehend what they were saying.