Democrats love to portray themselves as tolerant, accepting, reasonable people who are all about letting folks make their own choices. That is, until you choose something that runs afoul of their extremist ideology.
That's when you see Democrats for who they really are: unreasonable, intolerant, immovable authoritarians who tell you it's their way or the highway.
Consider what is happening right now in a wealthy suburb of Denver, of all places. Conservatives in the region have elected a "market-oriented majority" to head up the Douglas County School Board, a body that oversees the educational needs of some 65,000 kids.