History Main / AllIssuesArePoliticalIssues

[[folder:Animated Film]]

[[folder:Film]]

* Bernard Marx from ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'' does this constantly. He is very much on the positive side of the sliding scale (i.e. the OnlySaneMan variety). This is also fully [[JustifiedTrope justified]]: the society he lives is is totalitarian, so all issues literally are political issues there.

* [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in ''Fanfic/TheAudience'', where [[AuthorAvatar Arthur Arcturus]] demonstrates how to instantly hijack an innocent discussion of the weather into a debate on GlobalWarming / [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Pegasus weather crews]].

* In ''Film/TheLastDaysOfDisco'', one character talks about how much fun she had seeing ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp'' with her little niece and nephew. Another replies by deconstructing the movie as promoting an unrealistic and self-destructive view towards relationships with the opposite sex, "imprinting on their little psyches the idea that smooth-talking delinquents recently escaped from the local pound are a good match for nice girls from sheltered homes."

* Similarly, Guy Montag from ''Literature/{{Fahrenheit 451}}''.
* Creator/GeorgeOrwell -- [[TropeNamer from whom this trope's name is a direct quote]] -- was truly notorious for this. His friend Cyril Connolly once said about him that he 'couldn't blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.'
** Case in point: Orwell managed to end an essay about ''toads'' on a political note.
* Parodied in the first ''Literature/AdrianMole'' book, where Adrian sees youth leader Rick Lemon at the supermarket. He treats buying fruit as a political issue.
-->Saw Rick Lemon dithering at the fruit counter; he said selecting fruit was an 'overtly political act'. He rejected South African apples, French golden delicious apples, Israeli oranges, Tunisian dates, and American grapefruits. In the end he selected English rhubarb, 'Although,' he said, 'the shape is phallic, possibly sexist'.
* In ''Literature/ThreeDarkCrowns'' the foster families of the triplet queens are very keen on their contender winning the throne and willing to do pretty much anything to make that possible. Everything, from everyday purchases to friendships in analysed and remarked upon.
* The page quote originates from Matthew Stover's ''Franchise/StarWars: Literature/RevengeOfTheSith'' novelization. Palpatine and Anakin Skywalker are having what Skywalker feels is a moral issue about right and wrong, and when Palpatine discusses the Jedi Order's politics, Anakin states that the Jedi aren't political, resulting in Palpatine's response that, "In a democracy, ''everything'' is political, Anakin. And everyone."

* ''Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qHcZIlMSt8 "A political question - the question of marriage"]] and "Everything is political."

* In ''VideoGame/SunlessSkies'', your first introduction to Parliament is being asked to take sides in a heated political debate: should Parliament honor UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria by renaming Wednesday to "Victoria's Day", or should it punish her for her crimes against democracy by renaming Victoria sponge cake to "the People's Cake"? You later learn that ever since the Queen went full autocrat and flung the Parliament to the edge of Albion so they wouldn't bother her, they have all been like this.

* [[GranolaGirl Tajel]] from ''Webcomic/{{PHD}}'' often does this.

* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' has Kankri Vantas, who tends to go on long winded speeches about seemingly trivial matters that may or may not be important.

* Parodied by an article in ''Website/TheOnion'', [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/exhausted-noam-chomsky-just-going-to-try-and-enjoy,17404/ Exhausted Noam Chomsky Just Going To Try And Enjoy The Day For Once]], where Chomsky tries to have a day off, but everything reminds him of oppression.
--> Sources said Chomsky took what was supposed to be a refreshing drive in the countryside, only to find himself obsessing over the role petroleum plays in the economic and military policies that collude with multinational corporate powers.\\
After stopping at a roadside UsefulNotes/McDonalds, Chomsky was unable to enjoy the Big Mac he purchased, due to the popular restaurant chain's participation in selling "a bill of goods" to the American people, who consume the unhealthy fast food and thereby bolster the capitalist system rather than buying from local farmers in order to equalize the distribution of wealth and eat more nutritiously.\\
[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Chomsky also found the burger to be too salty]].
* ''WebVideo/HardlyWorking'': Taken to absurd levels in "[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6963028/the-social-consequences-of-everything The Social Consequences of Everything]]", where they shoot down every single idea about how to spend their day off because of social concerns, until eventually settling on literally doing nothing.
* {{Zigzagged}} in ''Podcast/WithinTheWires'' "Cassette 1: Tate Modern (1971)," when artist Roimata Mangakāhia dismisses art critic Alphra Bond as hypersensitive, imagining political subversiveness and incitement to war in works she reviewed.
-->'''Mangakāhia''': Bond believed all artists benefited from war and strife, as it gave them a more interesting story to tell. ...Of course the idea...is abhorrent and simplistic
::But the painting "The Charcoal Dish," of which Mangakāhia is a fan and Bond the sole detractor, may [[CassandraTruth genuinely]] be a subversive critique of the sinister OneWorldOrder, of ''Wires,'' depicting innocent people happily served up from a giant dish-shaped building onto a laden picnic blanket, to be eaten by hidden monsters.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': When Lisa and Mr Burns have just had an argument (Lisa had helped Burns recover from bankruptcy, but he used methods she found environmentally unfriendly), Burns orders her to GetOut. Lisa retorts she ''can't'' because Marge is picking her up in a couple of hours. This forces them to awkwardly sit around, until Burns attempts to make conversation by asking her opinions on "the popular music". When Lisa replies that she believes it helps to distract people from important issues, an annoyed Burns exclaims, "My God! Are you ''always'' on?!"

* Bernard Marx from ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'' does this constantly. He is very much on the positive side of the sliding scale (i.e. the OnlySaneMan variety).

* In the ''Fanfic/FirstTrySeries'', [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Hiruzen]] decides to enact an educational reform and retest the past genin candidates [[spoiler: after discovering extensive sabotage with the Academy.]] The other ninja village take it to mean that Konoha is remilitarizing

* In ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'' Spider-punk has a rebellious, anti-authoritarian and openly anarchist attitude, when they travel to Mumbattan and after avoiding [[spoiler: the death of police inspector Singh]], they see how a large hole forms and begins to suck the buildings of the city, and Spider -punk refers to this phenomenon as "a metaphor for capitalism"

-->-- '''Chancellor Palpatine''', the novelization of ''Literature/RevengeOfTheSith''

* In ''Film/{{Zwartboek}}'', there is a scene in which a group of Dutch [[LaResistance resistance fighters]] drinks to the Queen; one of them refuses to drink to her, because he is a Communist (and thus opposed to the monarchy). The others don't quite see what the big deal is. This scene was probably meant to symbolise the considerable tensions that arose within the RealLife Dutch resistance movement due to UsefulNotes/{{Pillarisation}}.

** In particular, this is a constant gag associated with the game's [[AcceptablePoliticalTargets communists]]. Dros [[FunHatingVillain thinks everything that isn't strictly about his own failed brand of revolutionary communism is reactionary, such as popular music, sex, or merely not being pathologically miserable all the time]]. In ''The Final Cut'', the infra-materialists' supposedly revolutionary political cell is really just a get-together where they denounce various pop culture artefacts as an encapsulation of why CapitalismIsBad, ranging from fantasy books (anti-worker) to board games (imperialist) to car racing (counterrevolutionary). If the player has the Detective internalise the Communist-aligned Mazovian Socio-Economics thought, the description explains that becoming a Communist has "made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth" and that instead of wanting to organise, he now just wants to rehearse everything awful about the world by subjecting it to critical analysis.

* In ''Webcomic/MenageA3'', this trope is parodied in a FlashBack in which [[{{Tsundere}} Yuki]] calls a banana flambé 'oppressive' and the waiter who is trying to serve her this dessert a 'patriarchal phallocrat.' It's parody because she does this out of her "phallophobia", [[StrawFeminist not out of any genuine feminist conviction]].

[[folder:Live Action Television]]

* Beth on ''Series/{{Pramface}}'', repeatedly. In one episode she gets kicked out of a jewelry store because she gets into an argument about blood diamonds, in another she attempts to replace all the hymnals in a church with ''The God Delusion''.

* On ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' and its associated universe, anything can escalate into PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad and/or into ultra-violent political discussion, even voting for a new school mascot (which makes Sean "P. Diddy" Combs appear and deliver his "true" vision of "Vote Or Die": vote, or get hunted down like a dog to the ends of the Earth and shot dead GangstaStyle).

[[quoteright:276:[[Webcomic/MenageA3 https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ma3_allissuesarepolitical.png]]]]
[[caption-width-right:276:Banana flambé with a side order of StrawFeminist.]]

Um, what the hell are you talking about, you fucking asshole? Roses and violets can be any fucking color they want, and who are you to judge them? Maybe they don’t even identify as roses and violets and you’re just making this decision based on their appearance. Wow, go fuck yourself, you bigoted asshole.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': When Lisa and Mr Burns have just had an argument (Lisa had helped Burns recover from bankruptcy, but he used methods she found environmentally unfriendly), Burns orders her to GetOut. Lisa retorts she ''can't'' because Marge is picking her up in a couple of hours. This forces them to awkwardly sit around, until Burns attempts to make conversation by asking her opinions on "the popular music". When Lisa replies that she believes it helps to distract people from important issues, an annoyed Burns exclaims, "My God! Are you never off?!"

[[folder: Advertising ]]

[[folder: Fanfic ]]

[[folder: Film ]]

[[folder: Literature ]]

* Creator/GeorgeOrwell - [[TropeNamer from whom this trope's name is a direct quote]] - was truly notorious for this. His friend Cyril Connolly once said about him that he 'couldn't blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.'

[[folder: Live Action Television ]]

[[folder: Theatre ]]

[[folder: Video Games]]

** Your character's political orientation is determined largely by making dialogue choices like this when discussing unrelated subjects, especially when excusing your own AlcoholInducedIdiocy. You can insist that the reason your hotel room is trashed is because you "defied bourgeoisie morality in here... defied it hard"; explain that you drunk-drove your extremely expensive car into the sea "due to following the invisible hand of the market"...
** This, apparently, was always one of your character's personality traits. When talking to Nix Gottleib, who knew you before your breakdown, a failed Rhetoric passive can appear in which your character decides 'they are rejecting you for political reasons', but before you can say anything Gottleib will cut you off by clarifying that it has nothing to do with your politics and he doesn't want to hear any of your theories on the subject.
** In particular, this is a constant gag associated with the game's [[AcceptablePoliticalTargets communists]]. Dros [[FunHatingVillain thinks everything that isn't strictly about his own failed brand of revolutionary communism is reactionary, such as popular music, sex, or merely not being pathologically miserable all the time]]. In ''The Final Cut'', the infra-materialists' supposedly revolutionary political cell is really just a get-together where they denounce various pop culture artefacts as an encapsulation of why CapitalismIsBad, ranging from fantasy books (anti-worker) to board games (imperialist) to car racing (counterrevolutionary). If your character chooses to internalise the Communist-aligned Mazovian Socio-Economics thought, the description explains that becoming a Communist has 'made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth' and that instead of wanting to organise, he now just wants to rehearse everything awful about the world by subjecting it to critical analysis.

** Fascists in the game - including you, if you choose to become one - are also prone to assuming everything is political, but unlike the Communists - who at least have actual theory to work from and make points that are based on a coherent world view - their assumptions are based exclusively on gut hatred of women, minorities, foreigners, homosexuals, the modern world, and, most of all, themselves. In particular, they like to explain how their own failed romantic relationships, drowned ambitions and substance abuse habits are because the King got overthrown and now everything is degenerate forever. The exception is Measurehead, who, while being ''absurdly'' racist and self-declaring as such, [[JerkassHasAPoint pities other racists for using fascism as a coping strategy for their own unrelated failings]].

[[folder: Webcomics ]]

--> '''Gwynn''': Anyone want to split an order of buffalo fingers?
--> '''[[CloudCuckoolander Torg]]''': You know, the Native American Indians used to use every part of the buffalo. Nothing went to waste. Then the white man came and killed off whole herds of buffalo for only their fingers!
--> '''Gwynn''': I'll have the spinach quiche.
--> '''Riff''': Don't get Torg started on the sociological ramifications of wimpy egg-products!

[[folder: Web Original]]

--> Roses are red,
--> Violets are blue,
--> Um, what the hell are you talking about, you fucking asshole? Roses and violets can be any fucking color they want, and who are you to judge them? Maybe they don’t even identify as roses and violets and you’re just making this decision based on their appearance. Wow, go fuck yourself, you bigoted asshole.

--> Sources said Chomsky took what was supposed to be a refreshing drive in the countryside, only to find himself obsessing over the role petroleum plays in the economic and military policies that collude with multinational corporate powers.
-->After stopping at a roadside UsefulNotes/McDonalds, Chomsky was unable to enjoy the Big Mac he purchased, due to the popular restaurant chain's participation in selling "a bill of goods" to the American people, who consume the unhealthy fast food and thereby bolster the capitalist system rather than buying from local farmers in order to equalize the distribution of wealth and eat more nutritiously.
-->[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Chomsky also found the burger to be too salty]].

[[folder: Western Animation ]]

* On ''Series/{{Friends}}'' Monica objects to one of Phoebe's friends playing at Phoebe's wedding, because of her odor. Phoebe replies her friend will shower when Tibet is free.

* On ''Series/Friends'' Monica objects to one of Phoebe's friends playing at Phoebe's wedding, because of her odor. Phoebe replies her friend will shower when Tibet is free.

* [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in ''Fanfic/TheAudience'', where [[AuthorAvatar Arthur Arcturus]] demonstrates how to instantly hijack an innocent discussion of the weather into a debate on ClimateChange / [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Pegasus weather crews]].

* Parodied by an article in ''Website/TheOnion', [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/exhausted-noam-chomsky-just-going-to-try-and-enjoy,17404/ Exhausted Noam Chomsky Just Going To Try And Enjoy The Day For Once]], where Chomsky tries to have a day off, but everything reminds him of oppression.

* In ''VideoGame/SunlessSkies'', your first introduction to Parliament is being asked to take sides in a heated political debate: should Parliament honor QueenVictoria by renaming Wednesday to "Victoria's Day", or should it punish her for her crimes against democracy by renaming Victoria sponge cake to "the People's Cake"? You later learn that ever since the Queen went full autocrat and flung the Parliament to the edge of Albion so they wouldn't bother her, they have all been like this.

** In particular, this is a constant gag associated with the game's [[AcceptablePoliticalTargets communists]]. Dros thinks everything is reactionary, such as popular music, sex, or merely not being pathologically miserable all the time. In ''The Final Cut'', the infra-materialists' supposedly revolutionary political cell is really just a get-together where they denounce various pop culture artefacts as an encapsulation of why CapitalismIsBad, ranging from fantasy books (anti-worker) to board games (imperialist) to car racing (counterrevolutionary). If your character chooses to internalise the Communist-aligned Mazovian Socio-Economics thought, the description explains that becoming a Communist has 'made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth' and that instead of wanting to organise, he now just wants to rehearse everything awful about the world by subjecting it to critical analysis.

** Fascists in the game - including you, if you choose to become one - are also prone to assuming everything is political, but unlike the Communists - who at least have actual theory to work from and make points that are based on a coherent world view - their assumptions are based exclusively on gut hatred of women, minorities, foreigners, homosexuals, the modern world, and, most of all, themselves. In particular, they like to explain how their own failed romantic relationships, drowned ambitions and substance abuse habits are because the King got overthrown and now everything is degenerate forever. The exception is Measurehead, who, while being ''absurdly'' racist, [[JerkassHasAPoint pities other racists for using fascism as a coping strategy for their own unrelated failings]].