What do you mean by alienate? How do you propose we incorporate defenders of capitalism? We can be tentative allies on the things we agree on, but there's no agreeing on things we fundamentally disagree on.

I would also differentiate between ordinary people and leaders. Ordinary people don't neatly fit into categories. So they might be very lib, but they also might have more radical views than the mainstream if you talk to them. It depends on the individual. Whereas the leaders, the talking heads, the political junkies, they're indoctrinated into their beliefs, they're going to defend capitalism to the death, there's not a lot of hope in converting these people in large numbers. Instead we are competing against these people to recruit the ordinary people, the less politically informed, to our cause and against their cause.