Unfortunately politics is everywhere...
I am not a b*tt kisser and it has hurt me in my "career"
My boss didn't like me and when she gave me my written eval a long time ago and the neg comment she said was "I tested too much" (I was a software tester). I was like give me a break! Isn't that my job?
She didn't like me because I didn't "hang out" with her and her clique during lunch and after hours. ugh! Luckily I moved out of her group and into a new one a few weeks later. But since it was an eval it was in my records.
I can't give you much advice only to say, hang in there and sometimes when things seem like they are so bad there may be a rainbow around the corner...