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 Sure, all things are 'political', by the simple fact that humans have interests.
But the specific 'politics' here are relevant. This particular group of people happen to be totalitarian (i.e. that it applies to all things/domains all the time). This is due to the fact that they believe a bunch of things to be 'social constructions', and for them that implies that subsequently means things can actively be constructed in whatever way you deem preverable.

The means by which they do so, is by 'chanting' things into reality. The logic is that if everyone chants the spelll (often and loud enough), it will become 'real'. That also means that any dissonance is undermining the manifestation of this 'reality', requiring repression: Everyone has to go allong with all the things all the time in every domain, otherwise things fall appart. 

So its their politics that is causing this, not the platitude that everything ultimately is political; for in many things/domains the political element is extremely marginal in the perspective of most political positions. But for them, its always central, and will always be very motivated to put it central. Simply avoiding, disassociating and moving away whenever they throw their political trans turd into the punch bowl does not work: because your silence is voilence and they will haunt you to the ends of the earth to force/pressure you to capitulate; they can not tollerate even potential dissonance, you actively need to join the chant.

By trying to move away, they will simply keep destroying capital (in the form of communities, projects, social mores etc.), but also vulnerable individuals in unstable mental and social positions that they actively seek to convert. They can not be ignored because they wont let themselves be ignored. The only option is to repress these freaks back into the margins where their broken twisted minds belong such that normal non totalitarian people can have peace. 
 The high trust society exhibited in my village by the sea is something we should fight for.

Kids... 
 The way to scale this is by agressively repressing a-social behavior, preverably by removing them from the cultural/gene-pool entirely, alternatively bar them from reproduction and/or raising children. If you consitently hang the bottem few % assholes, it compounds over time. Thats North-western Europe during the middle ages for you. Question is, are you too squeamish or not.