Group of friends as political unit | spread the infestation

Whilst reading this

http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=9533

I came across this

http://spreadtheinfestation.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/group-of-friends-as-political-unit/

Do not interpret this as an abandonment of formal politics.  Personally I wish that is how it could be – you work in an explicitly political organization with other people like professionals, and it doesn’t matter if you despise each other.

Of course there is a chicken-and-egg thing going on here: some groups of friends act as a support-or-detriment to a political group, and sometimes people become friends from being in the same organization.

Here’s the thing: as much as we would prefer this not to be true, people are very influenced by their friends.  If we are in a political group, and we recruit one person, the attitude which their friends take on it can matter. …