I will tell you why the left goes off like that. Religion requires personal responsiblity and the left hates that. That would make it seem like something could be your own fault instead of blaming it on someone else and spending federal dollars to fight it.
If it was up to our comrades on the left there would be no religion of anykind.
It is just a different kind of "religion"
Actually, in some ways the Left and Liberalism is like a religion:
-Contrary to observations and empirical date, the Left still believes the State can cure all and make a "heaven on earth".
-A demand that all people have equity of results as opposed to equality before the "eyes of the law"
(yes indeed, we are all equal, in all ways, before the eyes of God the State)
- The State, as opposed to God, is the final judge in ALL decisions; it is Divine, above all reproach.
- forced conversion through education; taxation and even their immature attempt with thought control via "PC" speech
-Their willingness, desire and passion to submit themselves and society to the State, above the individual.
(The Lord State is my shepherd, I shall not want)
You can see many manifestations of this with things like their "belief" in Global warming; cooling, Climate Change:
It is based not on fact but their agreement with the concept that State is the only solution in the "paradigm".
Indeed, notice how with the climate they have now set it up to be a non false-able or non-refutable proposition- i.e. all weather changes are due to Global Warming.
When one sets up a theory that is non false-able, it is not science. It is a matter of Faith. How quick would they be to believe this nonsense, if the solution was for less gov't?
It will also ,on occasion, take on a "cult" like feel with their dependency for hero worship eg. See anything Obama.
Not doubt, this behaviour is more due the the "religious nature" of liberalism than anything.
Yes, only a "prophet" can take us out from the "darkness" of our world and led us to our new social utopia.
Instead of the cries ot "heretic" from the Left, they are replaced with cries of "racist" or even better "denier" in the case of climate beliefs.
Yes, denier indeed!