Don't get too concerned with losers.
I understood that by acknowledging that I'm a socialist.. a proud, educated, gainfully employed, community, politically, and socially active socialist, I would open myself up to attacks by losers and scary little shrinking people afraid of labels .. which in itself was enough to make me want to shout it out at the top of my lungs.
But I recognized that I was not what is presently loosely called a "liberal." Libertarians call themselves liberal and I am light years away from libertarian thought. Today's liberals aren't fighters .. of course I don't mean that to be everyone who is liberal, but far too many.
The good news is that you will constantly be attacked by right-wing "haven't been right about shit" losers. That's the good news because it's quite obvious that you have the intelligence to destroy their weak arguments and send them home to mommy with their tails between their legs.
The good news is that you get to have good discussions with the sane posters and demonstrate the intelligence of socialism / collectivism.
Enjoy my sister.