Honestly we would all be better off if we had somewhere we could deport these people to. Fascists to Russia, communists to Venezuela, sovcits to Somalia.
It's not just confusing, it's badly written. For example: the Vulcans can't win by normal means, they have to accomplish one of their agendas; the rulebook makes no mention of this. I would urge you to download the updated rulebooks and FAQ's from Boardgamegeek and use those instead of the printed ones.
When you put a single word into Google Translate it usually gives you one or two good translations, some meh ones, and one that is not technically wrong but insane in most use cases.
The part they don't show you is that the guy on the left has been reading the rules, learning the game, making plans to play it, and then having those plans not work out. For 10,000 years.
They hated him because he told the truth