I [30M] came out to my wife recently [29F] that I’m an anarchist. My wife looked at me, completely shocked, and disaproved of my new political identity.

She said “I’m pretty sure I didn’t marry a child”. Out of anger, I retialated with “well, I’m pretty sure I didn’t marry a facist.” The wife, clearly angry at my clever retort, then promptly said “you can’t be serious…you’re actually an anarchist?”

Before she could even finish her next thought, I immediately said: “Look, I’m sick of you telling me what to do. If I want to drink from my sippy bottle, I will, and if I want to stay up past bedtime and collect funko pops, I will!”

I then took a deep breath and continued my rant, now energized. “I’ve read a decent amount of anarchist literature, so I think I know what I’m talking about. I’ve read a whole three subreddit posts and two articles.” My wife just looked at me in dissaproval.

“I have to be on Reddit all day, it’s important praxis that will translate to real life. With each reddit post I make, I further disempower the state. Do you think I got all these reddit golds for no reason? It’s clearly proof of my theoretical prowess and revolutionary contributions to the cause. We must enact anarchism by any means necessary, everything must be abolished to be liberated.”

My wife was confused and didn’t know how to reply. She just sighed and shook her head. Before she could even say anything else, I immediately interjected “it’s not a phase, it’s a valid ideology! You just don’t get it!”. As she turned her back to me, she began to walk away, and under her breath she muttered “I can’t believe I married a fucking manchild, my parents were right about you the whole time.”

Offended at my wifes explicit rejection of my political identity, which many of my online friends (thank you, xxsasuke32darklord!), told me is completely valid, I proceeded to whip out my anime rendition of Bakunin and throw it at her, knocking her unconscious in the process.

Since I came out as an anarchist, my wife has promptly divorced me, and now I live yet again in my parents basement, with the only posessions I have being my anime figurines, funko pops, and my rage against the machine albums. I also have a pending assault charge, which I think is unfair as it’s clearly just praxis in establishing anarchy by any means necessary and breaking free from the state.

All I know now is that it’s clear that if my wife doesn’t support my new found anarchist identity, she’s clearly some kind of bigot or facist.

AITA? Or am I just raging against the machine?