every piece of art makes me look good and you look bad

I will be a lazy frick and copy a comment @CeetheAndSope made some time ago:

This is the biggest thing. Someone says, "I'm sick of politics in X" meaning "I'm sick of politicking in X", and the wokescolds deliberately misinterpret that as "I'm sick of political philosophy in X". They know exactly what's being said, but they'd rather engage in weaselly bullshit than acknowledge it. And the people most vocally opposed to this sort of thing typically aren't erudite enough to play ball. Even if they were, the wokescolds would just engage in further Foucauldian definition changing, making the whole conversation pointless.

Star Trek is actually the perfect example of this phenomenon, specifically because it's both "always been political" and had incarnations across multiple generations. When you look at The Original Series, even an episode like "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield", hamfisted as it was, wasn't one one-thousandth as on the nose as casting Stacey Abrams as President of Earth or explicitly referencing the riot at the Capitol as being the inciting incident of World War III. But if you point out how overtly political Discovery and Picard are, you'll inevitably be met with "Star Trek has always been political." And that's it. Any further discussion is immediately and decisively preempted by that single phrase.