Politics are indiscriminately flagged. People don't come to HN to read politics.

This is simply not true, this very submission sits comfortably on the front page, so does

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47522709

and

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47518281

and

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47523106

and

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47523169

Unless of course you mean "politics" as in everything you don't like is "politics".