Do we really believe that Liberal values are absolute? Do we think free speech, and the freedom of conscience should be universal? Most of our professors who call themselves Liberals do not believe this. They want a coercive power to tell all of us what to do.
Freedom has been such a thirst for most of humanity for most of history. We have it, and a great many of us do not value it. We do not know what is worth, because we have not known anything else.
Me, I have experienced totalitarianism. It is a tonic for the weak and the dead, but poison to anyone with a heart, with dreams, and with a conscience.