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Just noticing the article from yesterday’s NY Times that everyone seems to be abuzz about: The Elephant in the Room

At work, I keep my politics to myself. Besides the occasional rant about taxes being too high (especially around payday) or my frustration with bureaucracies, my coworkers don’t know about my political leanings. They recently stumbled across some of my not so fond feelings for the French, but that was because of another (buisness) matter–but I’ve bet they’ve forgotten about it. It’s not like we really discuss politics anyway.

Sure in college my good friends and I used to tease each other about our political leanings. This lead to our constant attempts to outperform each other in creating the nastiest political smears possible (all in good humor mind you).

Sure there were times (very rare) we’d get into significant disagreements, but most of it was general banter.

One of the things I’ve long known is that tehre are times when it’s really better to just keep your opinion to yourself. Just nod along with the rest of the group, That’s the attitude I take with me for example into work.

I agree with much of what Judith has written here. Many of us don’t seek out to start the political discussions. we just keep to ourselves, figuring that’s the better thing to do.