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I see a huge range of behaviors between wearing something on my sleeve and never discussing something.
I listed three ways I discuss politics with others that I don't see as wearing my viewpoint on my sleeve. That phrase means to me that someone would know by looking at me or making a nuisance out of my beliefs.
I never really saw my votes as a call to defend the viewpoint of another person. In the case of a politician, I would just say I didn't agree with that aspect if I didn't, I don't feel the need to agree with everything someone else believes in. And in the case of a ballot measure I wouldn't vote in support of something I didn't agree with.
But I also don't discuss things with people who demean me, politics or otherwise. If I was surrounded by pricks, I'd probably just end up keeping all my opinions to myself. I just grew up hearing to never discuss politics and religion with strangers but I also do and I'm usually ending up with some sort of profitable conversation and sometimes even relationships from it.
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"The theory of a free press is that truth will emerge from free discussion, not that it will be presented perfectly and instantly in any one account." -- Walter Lippmann
"You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists." -- Abbie Hoffman
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