>Is it too much to not be mocked for wanting basic
>goodness and fairness for people.

Wanting those things means re-conceiving a lot of things that people want to treat like gravity, an intractable fact of nature. You're telling them that the entire way they understand the world is wrong. Liberals will fight socialism just as hard as they fight fascism, but they'll do it while telling you they agree with you in principle - it's just that now isn't the time with all these fascists around.