Your complete and utter lack of understanding of human psychology is startling. I’m not sure why I find that surprising. Perhaps you should try to figure out why like-minded people discuss relatively unimportant topics and don’t mention them. (I believe the technical term is “small talk.”) You may also want to look up the term “gossip” as well its general relation to the objective truth of a matter.
Making a statement like “it doesn’t get us anywhere electorally or politically,” while true, is totally irrelevant. Nobody will campaign on the fact that they’ve put a swingset on the lawn. You don’t understand this because you’re too busy playing Message Board Cop (or whatever the hell you want to call yourself) to realize that you no longer fit in here. That’s fine, of course - we do support freedom of expression here at FR.
:)