Nice article
I grew up in the same era and at various points in my life I've identified with most political labels under the sun
My love affair with labels ended on Twitter, where I saw that almost everyone of all political stripes was a complete asshole
And the problem was the labels themselves
The final straw was seeing my self-righteous political tribe conduct online bullying campaigns against survivors of sexual abuse
It still shocks me to write that
So I left Twitter and the labels behind
Everyone is flawed, so yeah absolutely what people do, if they can manage to be kind to each other that's all that matters
Politically now my beliefs are too nebulous to fall into a category, I think
I value more freedom, that's about it
Political parties seem like a bit of an anachronism anyway, there are surely better ways of sharing a planet