Generally speaking, liberals and the left in general, not only hate views that are different than their own, but they hate the individuals who hold those views.
I live in NYC, and I have an eccentric Democratic friend, whom I get along with okay. He is always inviting me to Democratic events, and I always turn him down, because as a Republican, I know I am going to find people who literally HATE me for that reason alone!
But our side, the conservative side or Republican... we may not like the liberals world view and we will say so, but I don’t think we HATE them as individuals.
This has long been my feeling; they hate us PERSONALLY, we just disagree with them philosophically.
You're absolutely right. I have some liberal-leaning friends, and sadly some liberals in the extended family etc. While I disagree with them on many things, I still value their opinions, ideas, and insights - even if only as a counterpoint to conservative views. How would we know light without darkness?
Personally though, I recognize them as fellow humans and wouldn't dream of wishing ill upon them. Liberals however, when you engage them in debate (and inevitably win on facts and logic) almost always fall back on personal, ad-hominium attacks. They genuinely seem to dislike, even hate conservatives and conservative thought. Probably because they feel so threatened by it. We upset their idealistic outlook with cold hard, irrefutable facts.
By our very ideological nature, conservatives are “live and let live”, as in “I expect you to leave me alone, and I will leave you alone.”
However, leftists, by their very ideological nature, seek to control and subjugate humanity. Those who would fight back are worth nothing except extermination, preferably at the “hand” of the State, which is their idolatrous god.