I use to listen to conservative radio on my phone at work minding my own business. Then a guy from Iowa transferred to my store. He is my age and a former veteran. He started talking to me about what I was listening to.
He told me he use to be a tea party republican and listened to Hannity and Mark Levin back in the day. However now he was a liberal.
He once told me in jest "what would you do if I wore my AOC shirt in here one day?"
I chuckled and said "nothing. I may not agree with her but I wouldn't blink twice if you wore it."
Over the course of the next few weeks we continued to have real conversations at work about everything. Philosophy was what he was really interested in and old grunge music.