I post under my real name. Have for 10 years. And I invite multitudes of people in my daily life to read what I write. I know some do because they look at me in strange ways sometimes. :-}
Me too. I've got nothing to hide. The people in my life know I'm a right-wing zealot. I have only partners, not bosses, and short of outright criminality there's really no significant repercussion I can suffer.
The only time I've regretted it is when I said unkind and intemperate things about Islam, forgetting the many decent and honorable individual Muslims I know. I am trying harder to to distinguish radical Islamism from the religion per se, not always with success, but otherwise I stand by what I say here.
-ccm