> If only I had a dollar for every Redditor that has tried to explain to me how "everything is political."

That phrase may be an oversimplification, but I think it is important for people to recognize that politics is going to happen whether you are involved in it or not and the results will impact your life.

If you detach yourself from it, the results of politics will happen upon you regardless of your involvement, likely in ways that you do not like.

Given this, it is a good idea to be involved even if you don't really want to be.

I agree, but also politics doesn't have to be the whole of life. It's possible to live a life where political things are one of many boxes you give time to. What I'm talking about are the extremists who would try to argue my garden is political.