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Before coming to LW, reading politics is the mind killer and swearing off politics completely, I found some success in never identifying as any political strain, just being interested in understanding the positions and communicating them. Like "anarchism (or whatever) is about such-and-such" instead of "I am an anarchist and I believe such-and-such".
Anyways, it's probably better to just not participate in political thought.
I do something similar to this, but instead of refusing to claim a political ideology, I simply observe my own recent behavior, inventory my own positions on the relevant issues, and ask myself, "From the outside, what part of the political spectrum does it look like I belong to?" This way I avoid identifying internally with any position.
Incidentally, in Social Security discussions and the like, people usually stop listening to me at around the part in the conversation where I mention that I believe that superintelligent machines will either destroy or save humanity before any of us reach retirement age.
Have you considered using measurement tools such as the Political Compass?