Can A Politically Themed Story Still Be Interesting

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I think that people use the word 'political' to mean different things. Maybe it carries a subtly different meaning in different English speaking countries.

Some people use the word 'political' to refer to refer to the governance of a country or some smaller institution, and particularly the attempts to become the governing power within a democratic system. By that definition discussing the 2016 presidential campaign, or the merits of the Trump presidency would by political. But things like Star Wars, discussions on feminism, whether abortion should be legal (or a myriad of other stances on social issues), wars (although the reasons behind them can be connected to politics, and even discussion on the balance between taxation/public spending, is not political. This use of the word is consistent with the dictionary definition https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/political

Others seem to use the word much more broadly - to refer to any discussion of a contentious social issue.