> When people say "I'm not political" they're really just confessing to low social status and acumen.
Right. Politics is a tool often used to keep people with low social status where they are.
Right. Politics is a tool often used to keep people with low social status where they are.
Much like gossip, politics is pack violence and order by other means, and is usable by people who have less physical power but more social influence. If you don't have either physical and social power, then you're dismissed as not a threat and ripe to be stepped-on. Gossip is often a political attack technique to take-down a physically-strong leader.