When I talk about this, I get a lot of kickback and people seem to really combat this idea. The modern left has a huge attitude problem, not all of them of course but most. From the cultural Marxist extreme wing of liberalism, the socialist democrats and such...

I always am on Facebook or Twitter or any social media site ever when I breeze through comments on "news" articles. The comments I end up seeing are just mind-blowing. The gun debate is what comes to mind because right when you bring up guns, people get heated. I noticed when anyone would post a comment or say something that differed from the basic 'we need heavy gun control widely accepted' idea, it went off like a ticking time bomb.

I would see people who claim to be open-minded and caring, wish death on the family of someone who doesn't believe in gun control or who disagrees with the government having the last word on things. It really is just mind-blowing. Again I will say it, I know it is not all, but the loudest of the left are these cultural Marxists who are intensely hostile to other ideas.

To me, the reason Donald Trump won the presidency is that of the actions of the youth-heavy liberal left. I know it's the minority of the left wing, and personally, I feel Hillary losing was instant karma for what she did to Bernie Sanders.

But again, they are the loudest of any political demographic in the country. These actions of hostility towards different thoughts and ideas do nothing more than hurt the left wing overall. In turn, it will make it harder for them to prevail in the upcoming midterms.

From what I have seen and can gather from talking to people about this, the actions of the left push way more people away from joining their side than they attract. The attitude that 'everyone who voted for Trump is a racist and sexist idiot' hurts the left more than I think most people realize.

There is a huge demographic of people who voted for President Obama twice and then went and voted for President Trump in 2016, and that seems to be something a lot of people overlook.

I already know what a lot of people would think seeing this headline, "but what about the right and Trump supporters?" Which I would say 'don't be a child', not to be rude. That is a childish thing to do when confronted about your negative behavior... slide a what if or blame the opposer. We are better than this and it is no excuse. In reality, I'm trying to help the left by saying this.

A lot of people view the left as 'undesirable' because of a lot of these actions, people who identify heavily with the left being hostile to free speech and other individual rights. That is how a lot of people see what the left has become, the attackers of individual liberty.

We really need to go back to the days where we could have a civil discussion and be able to debate without hurling personal insults and just automatically assuming every aspect of someone's life based on their political affiliation. We are better than this, and yes I place blame a lot on the right wing as well.