No, really, she's a moderate. Really. Come on! Really!
Liberals
There is a perception among the majority of Americans that liberals hate America. That is a hard argument to counter when American liberals are constantly denigrating American interests and openly cheering our enemies. The idea is further supported by the evident "blame America first" attitude in every international subject the liberals choose to discuss. While I do not believe that liberals hate America, per se, and certainly not all liberals are as fervent in their religious pursuit of hatred, there is an element of truth to the contention. It needs to be examined.
Modern day liberalism has nothing to do with classical liberalism. The latter is the pursuit of individual responsibility and personal freedom from the dictates of government. There are two major philosophers that framed the entire evolution of political thought in the world: Plato and Aristotle.
PLATO originally supported a process of attributing TRUTH to the church. He postulated that TRUTH cannot be known by the individual, but only by those that God had endowed with special understanding - ie; the church and government leaders. The individual could not "know" the truth, only be told the truth from those who understood. This would subjugate the people into servitude to church, government, and God without the burden of a questioning populace. Further, the truth was not a black and white tangible that could be grasped by man, but only by God (and His chosen leaders). This was all in response to what he deemed an assault on religion by science. See here for a brief overview of Plato.
ARISTOTLE countered the religious intentions of Plato by insisting that the TRUTH was not malleable nor intangible, but something that could be grasped as a black and white definitive reality by each and every individual with a mind. His position was one opposed to religion and government, in favor of the hard fact of science. His writings were lost for a time until they resurfaced at the end of the dark ages. See here for a brief overview of Aristotle.
These two philosophers are the antipodes of today's current political thought. When Aristotle's philosophy resurfaced, it was embraced by the Europeans in place of the old Platonic thought. The odd fact of this embrace was that those who suddenly found wisdom in his philosophy were religious believers. The anti-church philosophy found a home with believers and the Enlightenment was born - Europe emerged from the Dark Ages. Unfortunately for Europe, Aristotelian thought was considered a fad. An aggressive secularism settled in and replaced the Enlightenment through the further philosophical works of Hegel and Kant. However, during the brief period of Enlightenment, America was discovered. Those settlers and founders of this country did not fall victim to the counter-revolution of Hegel and Kant that swept Europe, but remained Aristotelians. America was founded on individual liberties, freedoms, and personal responsibility. America continues to be the last bastion in the world today of the Enlightenment period.
Plato's philosophy was expanded by Kant and Hegel to apply to secular sources of power in the world against the influence of the Church that Plato originally thought to fortify. The truth became knowable only by the society as a whole, not by the individual, and the truth was malleable. In other words, the truth could change whenever the society as a whole saw benefit to changing the truth.
Plato thus became the indirect father of modern-day socialism. Liberal thought flows directly from this philosophy. The truth does not matter, because the truth can be changed to fit what the society deems proper. The society is paramount and the good of the society must be pursued at all times. What is "good" for society can change when the society as a whole deems it so. Society decides the truth for its members.
Aristotle has indirectly become the father of conservative thought. The truth is black and white, cannot change, and is knowable by any and all men that possess a free mind. Society can be wrong and it is up to the individual to affect change in society.
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How do these two philosophies mesh with American liberals? Not easily. American liberals are fundamentally opposed to the truth being knowable by the individual because that would threaten their socialist ambitions. Socialism cannot co-exist with a free individual. Socialism assumes that the individual is too stupid to know the truth, to help himself, and to make a better future. Only society as a whole can decide truth and make social plans. American liberals see themselves as the "intellectual elite" because they believe themselves to be the "prophets" of socialism. Their pursuit of socialism is as dogmatic as any religion. Since religion in America is Aristotelian in origin, liberals are quick to scoff and denigrate any believer as "stupid." It only makes philosophical sense.
The re-write of history books, the deliberate pursuit of ignoring certain news, and the constant misrepresentation of fact follows the liberal philosophy of malleable truth. Thus, American liberals "blame" others. American liberals "hate" America because doing so helps to destroy the Aristotelian base of the country so that the path to socialism is easier. America's enemies are cheered for the same reason. Negative news items are trumpeted with triumph in their forlorn hope of seeing socialism gain dominance.
That is why liberals have so much hatred for conservatives. That is why all conservatives are "ugly," "stupid," and/or "liars." Since conservatives are anti-socialists, anything they say must be lies - because only socialism is truth. That is why a liberal truth in the past can become a lie today and the person who reports the discrepancy is hated. That is also why a liberal will use lies to make a point; he believes in the lie because it is good for his argument. Anything that advances socialism, including lies, is fair game. "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." - Adolf Hitler, far left socialist. Right out of the Liberal Handbook.
Yes, liberals hate America. But they believe that America can become the socialist utopia, even though socialism has failed horribly everywhere else in the world. Extreme liberals are filled with self-loathing because they believe that mankind is the top of the evolutionary scale or, in effect, gods of everything else, and since any idea of god is loathsome, they hate themselves for being gods. The arrogant conceit on the part of these "intellectual elites" is completely unwarranted, in my opinion.
Personally, I cannot imagine anything more dense, closed-minded, and intolerant than a liberal. Too much hatred in them.