[skybrian]

That's not obviously a win. We already have many people wasting a lot of time on unproductive political discussions. If scientists spend less time doing science that only they can do and more on political stuff that anyone can do, it seems like we're worse off?

There may be good ways to participate, but you need to be more specific than "lean in with everyone else".

(I exclude voting from this. Increasing turnout obviously requires all hands on deck. But that doesn't take much time.)