"Why can't we just talk about music, and leave the hatemongering and yelling to the politicians and political head-bangers?" Taconicus

My answer would be three-fold: You can do that by staying in the Mudcat up top; you need not concern yourself at all with what is being thought and said down here.

Another. harder, answer is that even musicians are not one-dimensional; we all live in a larger world.

Thirdly, on occasion the "politicians and political head=bangers" are us. See Answer Two.