The sooner these threads are dealt with, the healthier our community will be.
Politics can be really, really relevant to tech and vice versa. A lot of the things that have been discussed in this election are explicitly about technology and software (H1B visas, 'closing up the internet', social media to name a few). It would be ridiculous to plug our ears and pretend they don't exist -- that's how non-technical people end up making the rules about technology that we have to follow, i.e. how we got into a lot of the messes we are in today. Tech nerds like us love to pretend it doesn't matter because it's hard and it involves feelings and emotions and you can't reason your way out of it but we always, always lose big time with that approach.
That's one big problem with politics - it's a weaponized art of crying wolf. Everything, no matter how trivial, is an emergency, and "it's most critical to be aware" of it. Most of those things sort themselves out anyway, and are in fact of little real consequence.