Hearing more & more CEOs subtly discourage (but not restrict) employees from having political debates in the office, on productivity & team cohesion grounds. Politics is the mind-killer, the religion-replacement, the opiate of the masses—and polarizes more than any other topic.
This is the inherent nature of politics: one must benefit at the expense of the other. It is either control the Leviathan or be controlled by it. Once the Leviathan becomes powerful enough to control the whole society. (Which was the initial problem).