Been to Madison many, many times. Never been to Berkeley so I can’t say for sure. My suspicion is that although their politics are equally rotten, the pukes in Berkeley are probably more demonstrative. Madison is a beautiful city and is a communist island in a sea of relative normalcy.
I've been to Berkeley many times. I go there every two years to watch the USC-Cal football game.
Despite having a lot of good eating places, Berkeley lives up to its radical reputation. It's sad to walk along streets named for great men of letters like the historian Hubert Howe Bancroft, the English playwright and poet Joseph Addison, the Scottish hymn-writer Horatius Bonar and Theodore Roosevelt, and then look around at what the place is like today.