Couldn't agree more with the OP. Most far left people I know are total asswipes. They are, by a country mile as bad as the far right (EDL etc.) They don't see it either. I actually KNOW someone who took a photo (on his phone,) of someone with a UKIP flag up (during the run-up to the last election in 2015,) and put it on twitter, with 'hashtag c-nt' and 'why would you advertise the fact that you are a massive c-nt?' and then he put the family's ADDRESS on twitter.
That's the tip of the iceberg. I have a dozen or more tales I could tell, just from this past couple of years of appalling, nasty, abusive behaviour from lefties towards more right of centre people.
Another leftie I know put a pic of a sword poking the 'refugees' back into the sea and a big hand pushing them away, with the poor wee family sobbing. A right of centre facebook follower of theirs said 'if someone was genuinely desperate, they would stay in the first place of refuge they arrived at,' and he made a comment implying that many are not genuine refugees, and then he said the vast majority of the people trying to get in are single, young males.
This person then screenshotted the post and put it on twitter with the man's name, saying what a horrid, vitriolic bastard he was. Just for having an opinion that was different to hers!
As the OP said; most (very) left wing people are far nastier towards the right than the right are towards them, and I have noticed this for a long time now. The thing is, they claim to be so tolerant and kind and wonderful; yet are so pious and talk to people like they're shit if they don't agree with their far left views. I have seen people being slaughtered for saying the 'wrong' terminology when describing someone, and mocked and ridiculed for saying they think Theresa May or Nigel Farage are OK. Coz God forbid you don't agree with what THEY think.
And when you DARE suggest that some people keep having kids to accrue more benefits and that some people are better off on benefits than some people are working, you get scorn poured all over you, and get called the devil himself. And of course every BREXIT voter is a thick uneducated chav.
The worst place for annoying sanctimonious lefties is twitter. It's a joke! You can't say shit on there, and you get obliterated if you admit you support Brexit and like Theresa May.
The far left have come across as the nastiest of the nasty this past few years, and they are getting worse. Not ALL left wing are nasty bastards, but it's true that they are more likely to be nasty towards a right leaning person, than the right leaning person is to be nasty to them.
Like someone said earlier, I have always voted Labour, but feel very detached from the left now, and strongly believe I will vote Tory this time. Some of what they have done is not great (bedroom tax, pulling folk off disability benefits, benefit cap, stopping tax credits/child benefit at two children, tripling uni fees...,) But I think there was a good reason for everything they did; they were just too harsh, and went about things the wrong way.
So as I said, it's looking more and more like I will be voting for Conservative. There's no way in HELL I will vote Labour with Corbyn as leader. He is a joke, and the whole party is falling apart.
And to a poster above, it's not all about 'here' and FB and twitter - it's everywhere; the far left are just awful.