President Trump promised to fill the appeals courts with “my judges.” They have formed a nearly united phalanx to defend his agenda from legal challenges.

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        I mean, there’s plenty I’d change with our voting system and even who we vote on and the power they can hold, but voting is non-negotiable. Are you saying there’s a different form of consensus than voting?

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          Consensus decision making is different from democratic voting, yes, but the process is more democratic than simply voting.

          As far as I am concerned, representative democracy has been tested and failed spectacularly.

          We need something else, for sure.

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            56 minutes ago

            I’m all ears on a new system, even aside from representative democracy, but there are problems with just putting all things to a popular vote as well.

            I think we’re talking about the same thing just using different words, care to elaborate?

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              50 minutes ago

              yep, popular vote is just dictatorship of the majority, so that’s pretty much a non-starter, too

              i hope you don’t mind too much if I just drop a wikipedia link - sorry, I should be sleeping rn. check out the consensus based decision making article for more details on how it kinda works.