No, this isn't a very wise thing to do in most scenarios. I typically don't express my political opinions at bars (or anywhere outside my writing), but am not shy about fact-checking others' statements and that's what I was busy doing this past Saturday night. A couple people were talking about President Obama's "You-didn't-build-that" comment and I had to butt in and say, "You do realize those words are being taken out of context, right?" and then provided them with evidence to back up that notion by way of fact-checking sites FactCheck.org and Politifact.com. One of the two then said that the quote was shown within the full context and it made the president sound even worse. I asked what source provided this "in-context" quote and he said the Romney team. I had to chuckle at that. I'm sure if the Obama team took a Romney quote out of context and I defended it by saying the Obama team proved they were accurate in their portrayal of said quote, these two gentlemen would be okay with that. Riiiiiight...
Then someone else went off about healthcare reform. They were rather inebriated at the time, so I knew better than to try engaging in civilized conversation with them about the matter, so I just listened, let him have his say and then head elsewhere when he was finished.
Talking politics anywhere, especially with people you don't know too well, isn't the wisest of ideas. Doing this while fully inebriated, that's the recipe for disaster right there.
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