Because freedom ultimately needs honest and not overweening goverrnment, as witness Somaliland in northern Somalia. From the lefties I've met and are in my family it's more like it's Daddy Issues--or more correctly 'Uncle(Sam) Issues': "I'LL SHOW YOU!! LOVE THAT COUNTRY MORE THAN YOU--He's BETTER THAN YOU!" For example Denmark and Norway don't have a 'confrontational relationship' with the US, which is why these clowns always stumble from shithole to Shithole (like The USSR, The PRC, The SRVN, The Norks, the Albanians, Cuba, Nicaragua or Venezuela) to express admiration for.