Years ago, I went to hear David Horowitz speak at UC Berkeley. When the crowd rioted and David was spirited away by his security, I had to literally run to my vehicle to avoid a beating by the liberal crowd.
At the start of the Afghanistan campaign at a peace rally, a large ghetto-dwelling gentleman told my girlfriend-now-wife to go back to Europe, and when she said "I ain't goin' nowheres" he told her she needed to die. He also called her a blue-eyed devil. Police stood by, but did not act.
Immediatelty after 9/11 I put a small poster in my back window that portrayed Osama Bin Laden in the hairs of a scope and the text "Snipers wanted". Folks in traffic wanted to beat my @ss for that one, and they let me know.
My gay brother reports that he and his S.F. echo-chamber homo friends sincerely think that Ronald Reagan is the cause of the AIDS epidemic, because he denied AIDS funding back in the 80s.
I do truly love the land of my birth (SF Peninsula), but if the San Francisco Bay Area was targeted with a nuke and I was the only one who knew, I would merely call my grandma (in Palo Alto) to say goodbye and tell her I love her. The values of SF Bay Areans are, in many ways, a cancer upon our society, and their absence would not cause me a lot of sadness.
I thank God he made me end up in TX. I have a good job, a good house, and a wholesome, small-town-bred Texan wife who "don't want no truck with them california hippies". (Actually, referring the the peace rally, above: My wife was interviewed for the local news and I have a VHS tape of her saying "I'm sorry, but sometimes peace is NOT the answer!". That's some Texas common sense right there!
We're only kidding ourselves to ignore what's building as you saw first hand. When your property is damaged or your life threatened over a poster or political stand and nothing is done by those who are to Protect and Serve then it's time to organize and stand ready.
Great tag line too.