# Stop being the expert \[famous people and political views\]

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-being-the-expert-famous-people-and-political-views/772543>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 20, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-being-the-expert-famous-people-and-political-views/772543 "2016-11-20T16:21:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2016, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-being-the-expert-famous-people-and-political-views/772543/19 "2016-11-20T18:53:01Z")

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> [@Moriarty](#):
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> Brilliant!
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> OP, insofar as celebrities/entertainers, et al are also private citizens living in a democratic society, isn’t it entirely their prerogative to have and express political opinions? The problem you seem to have is that others listen to them. Is this problem because you are forced to be one of the listeners, or because you are jealous that someone else attracts more listeners than you?

I assure you, I’m not jealous that some celebrity is getting on a soapbox and getting more attention than me. I am, however very amused that you read that into my post 😊. In fact I’m floored by some of the responses. I never said these people don’t have a right to express their opinions, I just said I for one am tired of it, they should stick to what they know. And, before anyone starts screaming what does Trump know? He won didn’t he?

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