What are your political views (out of curiosity)?
Fairly right-wing.
The reference to the survival of the US Socialist Party, presented as a good thing, and one or two other little things, give me pause.
I don't require that a story conform to my POV to be enjoyable. But very often I find my POV and/or characters with my POV, to be presented as one dimensional foolish evul masterminds.
Which is bad writing and annoying.