Don't let them live rent free in your head. They hate you because they perceive you and your friends as a right-wing death-squad zealot, and anything to subdue you is justified.

If you're not careful, you'll fall into the same trap, seeing "the enemy" everywhere and anywhere you go. Eventually, you become the thing you hate, just with a different coat of paint.

Always stay true to attacking arguments and ideas, never people. In any confrontation, always maintain the high ground through nonaggression. And if you do end up having to defend your life, exercise restraint the moment you are safe.

And finally, get off the Internet and go outside. Take a deep breath, and enjoy your life. Even in the epicenters of the far-leftist wankfest, most people just want to get on with their lives.

In short, don't define yourself by the culture war.