The term “political” has undergone a tremendous shift in connotative meaning in the past 40 years

The term “political” has undergone a tremendous shift in connotative meaning in the past 40 years, oftentimes diverging so far from its denotative meaning that the term used in conversation has little in common with its proper usage. Setting aside any proper definition of “political“, what does the term mean to you when you use it in conversation? If you call someone or something “political”, then what do you mean? Can anything be “political”, such as a company? Finally, what is (or when was) your earliest memory of conceptualizing something as “political”?