Our community garden collective makes decisions by consensus but three people dominate every conversation and the rest of us have learned to just go along with whatever they want, and I'm wondering if consensus is actually making us less democratic.
More people experience this than they realize.
Democratic processes can be co-opted by those most comfortable wielding informal power, creating the appearance of equality while preserving hierarchy.
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