What would you put past a liberal? These are people who think that abortion and euthanasia are forms of compassion.
From there, what is too extreme to countenance?
I've lived here for 14 of the last 20 years and still feel like a stranger. Pacific Northwesterners, while independent, seem mild-mannered on the whole. But for many of them near the cities, the irenic demeanor forms a facade for all sorts of violent ideas - in the name of the environment, in the name of anty-corporateism, in the name of the advancement of mankind, you name it. One guy I worked with even thought Bush was privately having dissenters shot!