It's not that politics don't matter, it's that political discussions are not just useless - they're harmful. Political discussions almost always become emotion

It's not that politics don't matter, it's that political discussions are not just useless - they're harmful. Political discussions almost always become emotional, rather than intellectual, discussions. They work on the wrong part of the brain. Virtually everyone takes absurd positions and then viciously attacks their fellow human beings who take a different absurd position.