"The left," are a bunch of Stalinists and Maoists at heart, and they insist on trying to destroy those with whom they have political disagreements, whether they're private citizens or not. Don't kid yourself: If they had the power, many on "the left" would love to set up extermination camps for those with differing opinions, because they see the opposition as not just wrong, but evil. They've done it nearly every time they've had a chance to do so. And just in the last century, "the left" has murdered hundreds of millions of people, from Cuba, North Viet Nam, Cambodia, the Soviet Union, and Communist China.
Mark
""The left," are a bunch of Stalinists and Maoists"
That is exactly right. This is the most ominous development in recent history, which parallels that of 1930s Germany: it is a joke to refer to Nazis -- the Nationalist Socialist Workers Party, whose enemies were capitalism and Christianity, as being right-wing. The entire German nation moved greatly to the Left then, and we have done that, too, in the last decade. I very much hope our final outcome will be not as tragic.