Responses to some of Forest's ideas

[DEMOREP1 at aol.com]

Forest Simmons wrote in part-

When there is no consensus (100 percent approval) the group members try to
understand and deal with the concerns of those who are holding out.  If
efforts at assuaging the concerns of the holdouts don't win them over,
then compromises are made by the super satisfied, and so forth, until a
decision that everyone can live with is found.
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D- From my friendly dictionary-

con-sen-sus

1. an opinion held by all or most

2. general agreement, esp. in opinion

Good luck in trying to get any *consensus* whatever in *modern* legislative 
bodies regarding *controversial* issues --- which, by definition, lack any 
consensus about them.

Anything new and different in 7,000 years of political history ??? -----

Democracy -- majority rule

Monarchy/Oligarchy -- minority rule (1/ more than 1 but less than a majority).

Consensus (100 percent agreement) is in utopia-land.