Smart people are very likely to have opinions AND to understand they are detached from your job or your personal relationships. I am pretty political ( and I'd

Smart people are very likely to have opinions AND to understand they are detached from your job or your personal relationships. I am pretty political ( and I'd be happy to debate you to death and then go for drinks with you. I've worked in woke leftist companies all my life (most, if not all, tech places are). Most of my friends don't agree politically with me, I dated people who were my political arch-nemesis. I had brilliant coworkers I enjoyed working with, with whom I shared zero political ideas. I still have to meet someone I consider smart on the workplace that can't detach his political beliefs to the task at hand. Those political activists types were always busy organising committees and chatting on slack instead of delivering features. I wouldn't hire them (independently from their politics).