Have you tried thinking?

Here’s your very obvious answer. Instead of enslaving people, we could not do that.

There was a proposition to abolish it very recently in California that was rejected by the voters. Commiefornia my balls

historically speaking, when you consider its domestication by indigenous people in South America, its appropriation by Spanish colonizers, its resistance to looting by marauding armies compared to grain crops, and the freaking Irish potato famine, I think it becomes quite clear that the potato is a politically relevant crop and could reasonably be considered political.