Most people just care about life. liberty and happiness...

I'll disagree with this, It is an assumption about other people's motivations that is not borne out in reality. The War on Drugs is supported by about half the country...liberty is not forefront in their minds.

check out projection bias...a lot of folks that understand the necessity of liberty assume that everyone is like that.

The Left....The French Revolution, Vietnam and Nicaragua are solid examples in which the Left unifies with opposition to a government, only to execute and jail all the non-Leftists after the government falls.

Like I said, I'm willing to leave Leftists alone as long as they leave me alone...but I'm not willing to turn my back on them