MOST PEOPLE GO ALONG TO GET ALONG:

For reasons of morale it is important the activists and true believers banish all possibility of error from their minds when advancing their causes or else they might hesitate when calling for extreme measures that alone can save the world.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 26, 2024

Those who fail to go along, even in minor ways, are often reviled. And then, if they’re later proven to have been right all along, the revilers blithely pretend it never happened.