If you're in the same spaces as people who turn the above tendencies into social toxicity or outright lateral violence, there's a good chance that your political positions could be influenced, for the worse, by them.
You're not going to get the most cogent, useful politics if the major factors bearing on your political reasoning include "much of my social life involves people who are friends with an extremely opinionated jackass who engages in potentially abusive behaviour fairly often" or "I'm trying to not get kicked out of an org where many people in charge are clearly traumatised by internal political disputes which happened several decades ago and not handling that well".
