This is how frustrating it is to try to get Americans on board to try for a better life

I think it's hard to combat a century of red scare and we, as communists of various stripes, have to be able to deal with it. You can't do coalition building or agitprop without this knowledge. If you want to try and bring people in, you have to accept their biases and try and work with them in a lot of ways while educating them in order to either mitigate them entirely or minimise them. We want people who are empowered to do work in their communities and organise in their workplaces and you do that with education and understanding.