Politics specifically, nothing. But if you are the kind of person who violates the social order, no matter how mundane or harmless your behavior is when you do it, don’t be surprised when people don’t want to have you around anymore. They don’t want to see the kind of behavior you demonstrate when you realize that consequences don’t apply to you for whatever reason.
If you want a political example, a pardoned January 6th insurrectionist is currently in the news for threatening the house minority leader.
People don’t remember the “9 times out of ten” you were cool as hell, they remember the one time you crashed out and made everyone feel uncomfortable or unsafe, and they think about that every time someone has to decide whether to invite you out somewhere.
Politics specifically, nothing. But if you are the kind of person who violates the social order, no matter how mundane or harmless your behavior is when you do it, don’t be surprised when people don’t want to have you around anymore. They don’t want to see the kind of behavior you demonstrate when you realize that consequences don’t apply to you for whatever reason.
If you want a political example, a pardoned January 6th insurrectionist is currently in the news for threatening the house minority leader.
People don’t remember the “9 times out of ten” you were cool as hell, they remember the one time you crashed out and made everyone feel uncomfortable or unsafe, and they think about that every time someone has to decide whether to invite you out somewhere.
Huh.
You manage to take exactly the opposite point of view I took from it.
Not sure what the says about you, about me and about the post, but it does - I guess - open up the floor for further discussion?