Here's what I consider to be *the* quintessential example of what I assert about the "why" thing:

Maybe 10 years ago, when I was in Farcebook and my Leftist sister hadn't unfriended me yet, I saw a conversation on her page that involved maybe half a dozen of her female friends.

The conversation was about Gabby Reece, the volleyball player. Gabby had recently been on a talk show and the discussion turned to her fiance. When questioned, Gabby offered that she might, just one time, forgive her future husband for a unfaithful indiscretion. Just ONCE, and only MAYBE, would forgive him.

That sent the gaggle of hags in the FB conversation off the deep end. One of them said that Gabby had been a hero of hers, but now Gabby was dead to her. The worst person on the planet. The others said similar hostile, hateful things.

That's when I stepped in(to it).

I observed that "All you women who have just thrown Gabby Reece under the bus, you did so because she suggested ONLY that she MIGHT forgive her husband's indiscretion just ONCE. For THAT, she is dead to you all.

And yet...you all supported Hillary Clinton for president and still support her today. Yet she made a LIFETIME of forgiving and excusing her husband's serial, pathological marital indiscretions, time after time after time, and did so to her own selfish, personal benefit.

Yet Hillary is your hero, and Gabby is the worst person on the planet.

Can you explain this contradiction?"

Mine was literally the last post in the conversation thread. Not even ONE of them had the integrity or character to answer the question, let alone to admit to their dishonesty and hypocrisy. The conversation was over.

THAT is emblematic of most of the Left, IMO.