[cltby]

There are lots of reasons, good and bad, to avoid politics. But to claim that doing so is inherently political... isn't saying anything. To the extent it's true, it's trivially so. And to the extent it's non-trivial, it's completely false.

[Spivak]

The reason that you can't require people to vote in the US is because the act of not voting is considered protected political speech. Why is not participating in politics any different?

Hell, refusing to engage with certain types of politics isn't just political, it's an act of protest!