Politics is how a society organizes itself. That seems relevant to a message board that discusses society and technology.

It's monday and people don't feel important enough commenting on the weather. And I'm betting the topic as a whole isn't important enough to set them on a journey to inspect the "moral alignment" of everything else they spend money on. They just felt like burping here and now, most of them probably without reading up on all the other (quite leftist) policies and stances of the tiny local political party of the story; among the many things the leader of this party has made himself known for, the most famous detail is that he publically shames and scolds big-time politicians for their misbehaviors and not taking their responsibilities to the people seriously.