I don't think you understand the right. They don't hit you with that stuff until much later. They always offer community first. Food, a place to hang out, and friends are very hard to turn down for younger people. Just look at the hillel movement on college campuses. They're all about a big tent approach, and then they brainwash you later.

And that hasn't been my experience with the left at all. Every time I have ever tried to join a left community in meatspace it's a bunch of snarky, judgmental, dysfunctional assholes that do nothing but infight with a side of love triangles and polycules. I'm substantially older than most of the people here and there were two earlier periods in my life when I would have realized I was a communist but was driven away by so called leftists that expect you to meet them on their level, with their language, on day one. This is a pretty common experience for people my age.