Unless you are writing futuristic or period pieces, the current political situation can be an addition that adds 'flavour' to your work. Writers are renowned for being keen to hold governments of the day to account and have been imprisoned and worse in some regimes. Using politics is meat and drink to writers.
Some notable examples include Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose works like One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich exposed the realities of the Soviet Gulag, and Václav Havel, a playwright and later Czech president who used his writings to critique the communist regime. Other examples include Carlo Levi, author of Christ Stopped at Eboli, a memoir of internal exile for his political opposition, and Nelson Mandela, whose autobiography Long Walk to Freedom documented his struggle against apartheid in South Africa.
Weaving political views into your writing can be done by including scenarios that demonstrate your point of view. More simply, by delivering your point through conversations between characters in your story.
Currently, the world is not as enamoured with freedom of speech, and so writing along political lines could be risky. For example, foreign students entering the USA are required to keep their social media public so that it may be examined by security services. Why would they do that if the USA supports freedom of speech.
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