If you're an American, you live in a country where Reaganite conservatives are called "the left" and the actual left gets shot/murdered/jailed about once every 30-40 years. When we stand up by ourselves, only with the people who "get it" we get the end of the rile, or the concrete of the prison cell immediately. Now, in a situation where you can work freely with people PRIMED to hear what you have to say, nothing is good enough because "they're all just libs."
Newsflash; you live in America.