Agree with the observation, there is no such thing as apolitical. At best, "just leaving the politics out of it" is a sigh attempt to depolarize a discussion t

Agree with the observation, there is no such thing as apolitical. At best, "just leaving the politics out of it" is a sigh attempt to depolarize a discussion that it is about the explode. "Let's not go there" — as in accepting the futility of trying to come to some sort of consensus even though that's what we really would want.