Patience is not isolating ourselves from the people and leaving the oppressors to commit their evil (munkar) no matter how much the Ummah suffers of violation of its lands, usurping of its resources and undermining of her Deen.
We notice that RasulAllah (saaw) rejected all the invitations from the kuffar to enter their kufr system. The kuffar invited him as a member of their parliament, Dar un-Nadhwa, and even as its head.