Strange that in my life contemporaneously I’ve been called an “uptight Republican” and a “hopeless tree-hugging liberal” (along with some slurs about my alleged sexuality).

When you don’t really fit into any ideological category and also emphatically decline to join any tribe, people see what they want to see and try to fit you into places that make some sense to them, even if completely inapplicable and unsupported by the evidence.

Not that I think being hated by every group makes me right. But I do believe that being hated by every group means that I think for myself and reach my own conclusions, which is far more important to me, right or not.