yes, this is true - both in the sense that going completely down the political rabbit hole often leads to a theology (clearly observable), and in the sense that someones political views and the specifics of them invariably flow out of metaphysics that will constitute “a theology”
https://twitter.com/russiancosmist/status/1441883098782703616
what basic rights do people have and why, and what does that even mean? look at all the traits someone has: which are intrinsic and which are incidental, and how does this affect how we would ideally group them? what does the ideal society look like, why? these entail metaphysics
most political differences people have even come back, imo, to a singular theological issue: what makes and determines reality? some people are playing a game where there are set conditions and we operate within them, some people are playing a game where we set all the conditions
this basically becomes theological instantly if you put it under a microscope. if something is "actually bad", you're right to do something about it. but if we decide what's good and what's bad, the people "doing something about it" are the ones making it an issue. just one case.
it all spirals out from there. a case we'd all be more familiar with can be dumbed down to: why are people different? this becomes a metaphysical issue. if they "just are" we have to work with that + recognize it. if WE, "us", are making them different, thats a different game
more + more i think thats the fundamental split, that i have mentioned before. basically if u keep asking questions, "why", "but why", "why should we do that", "what gives us the authority to do that", "why is that good", these apply to all politics, eventually u get metaphysics.
(and grounding that metaphysics in something that isnt just being ad hoc entails some type of theology, be it atheism or appealing to some higher principles that themselves have to be explained by appealing to something, etc.)
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