If your existence has never felt "political" to you, cherish that. I've been on the receiving end of many slurs and the occasional attempted assault, and I've watched politicians and pundits debate on cable TV whether I deserve to have the same rights afforded anyone else. I didn't choose to exist "politically", but I sure do notice when folks don't speak up against challenges to my existence because they view it as "politics" and therefore not worth their attention.
Reality, however, is there, whether we would like it to be there or not.
Look, I get it: sometimes you just want to put your head down and focus on technical details, and let someone else worry about the context. But keeping your head buried in the sand all the time isn't the answer.
My worry about your line of thinking, and the everything is political one, is that it feels a bit like eradicating diversity of thought and experience. To relate it to the start of this thread, plenty of the world outside the US will have so much of their own shit to deal with than the politics that are _important to you_ are not at all important to them.
For anyone to suggest or demand or require otherwise would seem to be quite imperialistic to me.
It isn't, but I can't see a benefit of dragging unrelated politics into software development, even though the topics might be important.
I recommend you read about Allison Parrish's new hacker ethic: http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting...
The core questions she proposes are essential things every software professional should ask themselves and keep in mind as they work. The political context, and which players in that context benefit from the work you do, is not unrelated at all.