If you rent, you can't put an anchor screw in the drywall. Who rents vs. who owns is political!

How many drywall screws? How corrosion resistant must they be for any given environment? Why screws rather than adhesive or nails?

Why would anybody in this hypothetical thread discuss the politics of owning/renting, when that doesn't bring you closer to any solution?

Drywall? Who would make a house with drywall? In my country everyone lives in a stone palace. Americans are so cheap, interest rates, unions, Boomers, NIMBYs, short-termism, speculation, etc.

I could easily make an argument for price, availability, requirements for local zoning codes.

I like Wikipedia’s definition of politics: “Politics (from Greek: Πολιτικά, politiká, 'affairs of the cities') is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations between individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status.”

Any subject arising from the interactions of people can be viewed through a political lens of some sort, but the saying you’re objecting to is typically used in the context of the coded attempt to censor or ignore unpleasant news as being “political”, which in truth usually just translates to “I resent being forced to acknowledge this.”