Everything you’ve stated here is pretty much spot on. Growing up in NY as I did, I had the displeasure of being exposed to their crap on a daily basis. In those times (late 60’s and early 70’s) the Vietnam War was the catalyst that served as the foundation for their belief(s) that the US was the root of all evil.
I could probably go on for hours about the BS statements I heard from these characters but that would probably fill a book. Every time they “argued” with me about some lame-brain political craze of the moment their “solutions” always were something along lines of “Do as I Say Not as I do”. I saw through their transparency very early in my life.
The biggest problem with Liberals is that we call them “Liberals” - They aren’t; they are socialists and communists and collectivists. They are not even Progressives though the like to think of themselves as such. They should be called what they are not what they (Liberal) think they are.
I too grew up in NY during the same time as you. I saw it front row and up close as a NYPD police officer.