On 3/7/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Obviously, the larger and more contentious the community, the bigger the challenge of consensus. But we cannot undertake such a debate without an open analysis of parliamentarianism's defects. Such a system encourages the forming of parties that will promote and protect particular policies, and who will be happy to have their POV succeed by a bare majority. It leads to the tyranny of the majority.
Parties generaly require a representive democracy. What we have is closer to the athian system.
-- geni