Our community garden collective makes decisions by consensus and it worked when we were small, but now we're 20 people and every decision takes forever and nothing gets done because a few people can block everything. Some of us want to try a different decision-making process but changing it would require consensus, which feels impossible, and people are getting frustrated and dropping out.
More people experience this than they realize.
The commitment to ideological purity in governance becomes self-defeating when it prevents necessary adaptation to changing group dynamics.
“Where Are You with Immigration and identity?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.