People who deny that everything is political want to bury their heads in the soil and act like their actions don’t have consequences, as if they live in a vacuum. They want to benefit from the perks of living in a society while not having to care about the responsibility that entails. They want to shut their brains off and not have to think about how their actions affect others, to be mindless workers and consumers and nothing more. They want to have their cake and eat it too. It’s anti-intellectualism in its purest form.
For me personally, when someone calls themselves “apolitical”, I see it as an abdication of responsibility, a desire to crawl into a bunker and isolate oneself from the world, while still benefitting from the perks of living in a society. And that’s a relatable desire. I’ve certainly felt that way on multiple occasions. But that too in itself is a political decision. You’re choosing to do something else instead of serving the community. And I don’t see that as necessarily a good or bad decision, but it is still, inherently, a political one. People who want to believe otherwise are just objectively wrong. It’s like trying to argue that grass isn’t green, or the sky isn’t blue, or that the Earth isn’t round. You’re just objectively wrong. A decision not to engage in politics is, contradictingly, a political decision, by definition.