Lingonberry!

I like what you said, because it encapsulates exactly how I feel about political fandom. It actually engages people in the real world, in political process, and such is the nature of fandom that very rarely do little things, that might one day have far reaching consequences, go unnoticed.

And oh yes, everyone is so friendly and open and fully ready to laugh at themselves at the drop of a hat. I feel like politics inspired the fandom, which then inspires an even deeper interest in politics, and so on and so forth until one day we're all gonna inevitably end up ruling the governments of the world and writing fanfic about ourselves. ;)