Makes more sense than you realize. I went to a very liberal college (Berkeley) and sometimes it was hard to believe the sense of entitlement among the students.
This was most pronounced in pedestrians: they ignore traffic lights and j-walk at will. If you ever spoke to them about it, they would give you something along the lines of "I am an earth-saving pedestrian, you are an environment-killing driver of a gas guzzler- ergo I always have the right of way.
Not everyone was like that, but a good percentage of people were.