The Postmodern Left is in an Extinction Burst

I'm taking liberty applying individual behavioral phenomena to an entire political group but I think there must be a collective effect as well.

Board Certified Behavior Analyst Definition of Extinction Burst

One of the juiciest ironies of the postmodern Left is its belief that everyone else is a puppet—strings pulled by master manipulators—while never stopping to consider that the same might be true of them.

Even while controlling most of the institutions of our society and using them as social conditioning instruments, the Postmodern Left misses that it effects them most of all. I see a negative feedback loop forming driving this which looks like:

1. The Left ratchets further left on an issue.

2. It chases out moderates.

3. The party is left with more radicals and fewer moderates, see Step 1.

This looping keeps reducing the size of group which axiomatically makes the more radical elements a larger proportion of the group. Inside the group, dissent isn’t tolerated. This has encouraged the truly mad revolutionaries on the Left (of many stripes) to drop the mask of civility or comity utterly while holding leadership positions.

But such a re…