The politics being discussed are struggle for control for the top of the family and for final legacy for all these oldest active guys at the top...if the shelved guys do actually constitute a dangerous faction then it could come down to what the other families...maybe the west side most...think of the men being discussed, how classy they are and how much and who stands to gain from this outcome..either way. If you put 5-10 dangerous gangsters at the top of a family faction in their 60s-80's under pressure and start calling them shelved it could turn out to all come down to who has young guys willing to shoot for them...there seems to be too many respected guys on the underdog/deposed list to write them off as not being potentially extremely dangeous...if the old guys on the now-currently-out list really just don't give a fuck and the rank and file of the family felt a better earn under them them then this is still a fun story.