I mean yeah isn't that kind of the point? You have some uncompromising principles, say someone asks you to cast them aside? It's not gonna be easy to do so most people choose the second best option and live with the cognitive dissonance. Either that or prefer to do as you say. Far as I understand United States and many other countries were founded because of that.
Another example. Look at my country. Hailed through years as the socialist paradise. Same governing leftists sent it to shit. Now what people do? Easy, engage in simple denial, anger and cognitive dissonance about it. "It couldnt have been real socialism", "it's not as bad as they say in the news", "news must be fake", "clearly it's someone else's fault it went to shit", "oh oh maybe it was corruption" and so on and so forth.
It's not as weird of an attitude and it is kind of part of humanity at this point.
Look at my country. Hailed through years as the socialist paradise. Same governing leftists sent it to shit.
Tells me that it probably was corruption. You got a bad group of leaders, and what had been good went sour. Unfortunately, that's the way shit goes; bad leaders can wreck a great thing.
Making fun of rural/suburban cavemen who have forgotten or decided not to know how to live in society is universal humor for anyone that isn't choking on their own drool as they rush to vote against themselves in order to "own" some other group.
The alternative is to try to explain to these tryhard intellectuals why safe and healthy communities are a good thing but that's just a waste of everyone's time.
Almost like when a platform is developed by an open an actual communist and all the people jumping reddit's ship are leftism braindeaders, the hivemind keeps rolling