I love how people can say this with a straight face.
when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to speak at Columbia, he was treated with respect and got applauded, GW wouldn't have gotten that, the minutemen were attacked.
I was a left wing protester for longer then I have been nominally conservative, I lived with the left and was part of the left.
They have an insane hatred of the country that protects their right to be left wing kooks.
I remember demonstrations calling for the death of the hostages during the Iran Carter fiasco, the left used to fly the Viet cong flag during that conflict.
I have seen so many demo's here in San Francisco,yup, they really hate the USA and would rather the USA destroyed