Far as I can tell, someone wrote:
Is it my news server or are there a high number of political posts on this group??

It's not your server. There are a great number of idiots that use this
group for their political arguements

I took about fifteen minutes to filter all of them and now I see very
little.

I filtered headers with a dozen or two key words and about 25 of the
fools who feel they just can't hold a discussion with a politics
newsgroup, so they argue here. It's sad because there are actually a
few who know boats (and many more who don't) who could be interesting to
read, but they just can't control themselves.

Once you get rid of them, it's not a bad group.