Anytime someone guesses my political alignment without discussing the ideas with me they've guessed wrong (happened at least 3 times I can recall). I like to act offended, but it really doesn't matter to me. Humans have to group things and discriminate. It's how we work.

The key to not hurting people is accepting at any point what you've put in the box can come right back out again.

As a matter of fact, yes, it happens, and it is annoying.

Just because I'm white with light brown hair and gray eyes and I run my own business they presume I have to be a Republican, when in fact, because I have studied macro economics and political geography and neuropsychology and chemistry and physics and biology and history and cosmology and astronomy, I'm very much of the Democrat way of thinking

I know I can make more profit as a businessman when I have staff that are more productive when they are not stressed about paying for health-insurance premiums, which means I support a national health-insurance scheme, and they are more productive when they are better educated, which means I support more funding for education, and the cost of maintaining security is less when the citizens in general are not so poor that thievery starts looking to them like a viable option to put food in their stomach, which means I support better welfare systems, plus I support higher minimum wages, because people need to have money in order to buy what I have to sell (and minimum wages are no big deal for me if all my competitors have to meet the same minimum wage requirements).

But alas, they always presume I want to be some kind of Republican tyrant who sits on a beach in the Bahamas wringing dividends out of his stock while other people do the work, instead of be a person who actually runs his business and works with the people he hires.