Now party loyalty, at least, should be assured.
Queensland cannot use loyalty at the expense of winning.
"Your friends were your brothers, and anything but total loyalty at all costs meant excommunication.
There are examples of loyalty at various levels of the pay and age scale.
But too often these networks are patriarchal, stifle dissent and demand loyalty at all costs.
Perhaps, one day, Google's algorithm will guarantee us all brand loyalty at the push of a button.
But Mr. Wellstone's campaign manager, Patrick Forciea, told me that there was more than just blind loyalty at work.
"Some hotel managers add other perks, like a bottle of Champagne," said Edward Nevraumont, senior director of customer loyalty at Expedia.
Lazarus is inevitably compared with Ebersol, who inspired deep loyalty at NBC over 22 years as the sports division's president and, then, chairman.
Until now, Iraq resisted falling apart because of foreign pressure, regional fear of going it alone and oil wealth that bought loyalty, at least on paper.
But some others are chuntering privately, for all their good behaviour in public.In that public loyalty, at least, they take their cue from Mr Blair himself.
