A common exchange I have in my YouTube comments is a viewer, upset about something I said, will accuse me of being a “Trumper” a “MAGA-T” or some variation of insult indicating I am Republican or voted for President Trump. My response is always the same: You’ll never see a red hat on me.
I keep it short because I don’t do political content and I don’t care what the drive-by commenter thinks of me in general or of my “politics” specifically. I put politics in quotes because what drives me isn’t really about elected officials or anything that ends up on a ballot. It’s freedom. And paradoxically, it’s about the firm boundaries that make freedom possible.
I’m known for being highly rebellious. Disagreeable, even. I lash out aggressively if someone speaks out of turn to me. I despise tyrants, big and small, and it makes me sick watching people censor themselves and fall over themselves to avoid drawing ire from the mob. I care about people running their businesses the way they want and not h…
