Universal Anger of the Left

I have noticed that the "Left" doesn't like Angela Merkel too much. The way that they treat those with which they have political disagreements is not particular to Germany, or even the U.S., but I notice a definite angry protest movement of the "Left." You can go back to Bush's first visit to Germany when 10,000 police officers were brought to Berlin to deal with massive protests. It was noted that the amount of security for this event was similar to the previous May Day celebrations as well as an Anti-Semitism Conference. The obvious question for me was "where does all of this anger come from?" At the time, I remember thinking that the German Left held Bush, Capitalisim, and Anti-Semitism in equal amounts of contempt.

During our last election cycle, the news was plastered with accounts of massive and angry protests at the Republican National Convention in New York. In contrast, there were no major protests at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. Again, I remember thinking "why don't serious members of the Democratic Party essentially tell these folks to "get off my side"?" In my opinion, the anger and vitriol that these protestors exhibit has the effect of giving their causes infinitesimal credibility.

A recent Expatica article, titled "Far-Left Tries to Shout Down Merkel at Rally" pointed out just the latest version of the same phenomenon.

But Merkel's speech was constantly interrupted by about 50 young men, dressed in black with dark sunglasses who yelled insults, blew whistles and swirled loud rattles.

"Nazis out", "Hypocrite!" and "Go home you slut!" were all part of the repertoire heard by the entire crowd for well over an hour.

Some of the men waved flags of the former East German Communist party, the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), which has merged with a western protest group to form the new Left Party which polls show could win up to 10 per cent in Germany's September 18 elections.

Why has the rhetoric of the angry Left become so... well..., ANGRY? Is there a culture in the "West" of attempting to change the system from outside of the system? Most causes in politics are at their very base legitimate, but anarchy is not a legitmate remedy for much of anything.