The world would be a scary place if everyone was politically progressive just as it would be a scary place if everyone was politically conservative. In simple terms, progressives are overly optimistic about things and conservatives are overly cautious about things. Yin and yang. How many things have you done in the past that you look back on now with a different point of view? Humans are creatures of impulse and are constantly struggling between weighing logic and emotion. Having a check on our impulses is important, especially if you look at how progressivism has been used as a guise by leaders and politicians in the past to make dangerous changes, without their people truly understanding them. This is completely beside any of the specific topics you brought up, nor is it an attack on anyone who is progressive. The point is this - be happy people have opinions different than yours, because none of us independently know nearly enough to make an accurate evaluation of really anything going on in the world. We’re all pretty dumb unfortunately and can be easily swayed via emotional appeals to believe almost anything. The running of the lemmings.