If you define your happiness and freedom by external circumstances, you'll never be truly happy or free. You'll always see another person or material condition standing in your way. At its core, modern progressivism is pure materialism and selfishness. The focus is either on "me" and why everyone else won't let me have what I want, or it denies ones inherent dignity as an individual and reduces the person to their race, gender, religion, etc, seeing them as nothing more.
I don't believe there are any progressives who are truly happy. Any who say they are happy are either lying or have never known real happiness and thus don't know any better. It saddens me to see so many corrupted by this ideology.