This kinda reminds me of an event many years ago when I was in the Porsche club.
I had a GF from Botswana. I took her to a Father's Day picnic the club was having. For some reason she started freaking out, and began ranting about how "people were fighting for their lives every day where she came from." And "how could we carry on this way."
I said "this is a social organization, and we are here to FORGET about our problems. We aren't here to try to SOLVE the world's problems."
Like here, the Porsche club is a social organization dedicated to lust for all things Porsche. BUT....we were involved in other things as well. We talked politics. We made charitable donations. We were involved in other aspects of society.
We NEED political discussions here. We NEED to know what "our" government is trying to do TO us. I've actually testified before a committee in Austin (Texas Capital btw) which was considering legislation which would have been harmful to OUR hobby.
I'm guessing there aren't many on this site that can say they've been that involved.