Absolutely and it's that realisation in my twenties that got me to ditch liberal parties. The way the right would never play by the rules, would be scummy as hell and yet the supposed 'opposition' would always play fair with them was so frustrating. I remember thinking "these guys are a threat, you can't afford to play with them like they're acting in good faith anymore!" But the idea of anything outside of the two party system didn't occur to me until I discovered that not only are there plenty of actual communists out there, that they're not evil like I had been taught to believe and they actually wanted to do something to fix things and they were willing to treat the right like the threat they really are. No one else was saying "Actually, the right needs to be stopped and they aren't going to just roll over and let us. Let's actually punch the shark in the nose instead of patting it and hoping it won't bite".

Tldr the so called liberal progressives weren't going to fight for me when the chips were down so I no longer felt like I could trust them with my safety.