Why are there so many political questions on here anymore?

it's a fun and easy place to troll. that's why. some are serious, genuine questions, but most are not. i usually avoid that section in general.

So, stop going to the home page for questions. The most active ones land there, and there are a very opinionated group of users who focus on those topics. The site has TONS of non-political questions, in dozens of other categories.

Think about where else they could post such questions to get this many eyeballs from the people that do not agree with them. There really is no other option. They post on other sites, only their own kind see the post. It is really a clean form of trolling.

Russian Trolls.

My guess is that they're attention hungry, like, I don't see another possible explanation since politics are pretty simple; some old fool lies to cause a response or to try and gain votes, even pop culture is more interesting lol

They do it for fun. They believe this is the only place where they can talk **** and get away with it. Basically I consider any political question here to be shitposts.