Well there's a nice tendentious climax to your argument, Smed my dear fellow. I appreciate there is a sort of roguish tongue-in-cheekery implied: tho some might regard that as the kind of backdoor of irony that lefties often leave open to escape thru if called on the full implications of some of their assertions & attitudes! For the moment, let me just query your assumed equation of 'liberal' & 'left' — it ain't necessarily so, as Ira G observed.