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<blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 5401639" data-attributes="member: 3887">Hopefully I'd use such a situation to stand on another, time-honored principal, namely &quot;I may not agree with what you say, but I defend to the death your right to say it&quot;.I say 'hopefully&quot; because I'm not sure I would, I can be as partisan as the next partisan guy. But I don't think labeling people with different political views as &quot;The Enemy&quot; is a smart idea, tempting as it may be from time to time <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />. Let me ask this: if we should remove politics from the public square (or at least the local retail section of it), then where is it's proper place? Alone in our cars, listening to hyper-partisan political radio personalities --ie, entertainers and assorted rodeo clowns-- perhaps? I think we need more and better public political discourse here --ie, America-- and I don't see how that's served by refusing to patronize a shop because the owner voted for The Other Guy (and has his or her poster posted on the wall).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mallus, post: 5401639, member: 3887"] Hopefully I'd use such a situation to stand on another, time-honored principal, namely "I may not agree with what you say, but I defend to the death your right to say it". I say 'hopefully" because I'm not sure I would, I can be as partisan as the next partisan guy. But I don't think labeling people with different political views as "The Enemy" is a smart idea, tempting as it may be from time to time :). Let me ask this: if we should remove politics from the public square (or at least the local retail section of it), then where is it's proper place? Alone in our cars, listening to hyper-partisan political radio personalities --ie, entertainers and assorted rodeo clowns-- perhaps? I think we need more and better public political discourse here --ie, America-- and I don't see how that's served by refusing to patronize a shop because the owner voted for The Other Guy (and has his or her poster posted on the wall). [/QUOTE]

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