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> Who are you sharing your views with that you are experiencing so much judgement, etc?

You'd be surprised. I left the Bay for a handful of years, and when I came back half of my friends had become political radicals. There is no lack of people who will react badly if you don't share their views in detail.

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I go out of my way to NOT discuss politics amongst colleagues and co-workers, as my political beliefs are not anyone's business but my own and the ballot box's. While in private I actually agree with a fair amount of the ideals espoused by my far-more-progressive colleagues, I'm regularly called out in some circles for NOT sharing my views in detail and participating in the collective political superiority circle.... well, you know what I mean.

This goes in all directions.

Indeed it does.

It does. But that's one of the things I loved about small-l liberals, when I was younger this focus on "thoughtcrime" wasn't there. Now we are not that much better in this regard than those we are opposed to. Horseshoe theory I guess.

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