Thanks for the kudos.
Yes some of these liberals have a religious like zeal for their causes. That’s ironic because most liberals tend to dislike religion, but they have a mentality and mindset that is stronger than many religious people.
I think the reason why is today’s liberals generally are atheist/agnostic and they try to fill the void and need for God with the state instead. Since conservatism by definition does not see the state as a savior, you never see conservatives act as deranged when they lose like liberals act when they lose(case in point: Al Gore, the election of 2000, and all those folks crying and screaming claiming they “accidentally” voted for Patrick Buchanan because the butterfly ballots were “too hard to understand”).
Liberals tend to follow the Jean Jacques Rousseau viewpoint of the state as a “liberator” of man when in fact conservatives know the state is in fact an oppressor of man.