My life choices?
I'm not one of these people who barely-passed trough a bachelor's degree and then wonder why they're unemployed. I'm well-employed, and completing my Master's degree this year. I'm not one of the people we're discussing in this thread at all. Not even close.
But no, your understanding of what people do in History departments is flawed.
One: most people who are history or humanities researchers are not left-wing in the sense of being leftist True Believers.
Two: The reason that post-modernist twaddle is so ripe in Humanities schools has little to do with people being stupid, but because of what I call the temptations of the trade.
The simple fact is that for the purpose of studying history in-depth it's useful to remember our ancestors - and in fact many of our contemporaries - defined many of the key concepts that we hold by default for granted, differently. 'Crime', 'Death', 'Childhood', 'Old Age', 'Youth'. It's tempting, when you study how entirely farking different people can be, to pretend that their 'different' is equally valid as your outlook is. Which it not necessarily is.
Another temptation - of course - is to pretend that the events that unfolded were Inevitable, unfolding according to Scientifically Discoverable Historical Laws. This is real cool, because it lets you pretend that you're a Scientist. This can feed into epic-grade leftotwaddle in turn.
HOWEVER. It is important to remember that none of this occurs because these people are somehow stupid or indoctrinated.
