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When community groups develop unhealthy power dynamics

Our neighborhood group started meeting about local issues but it's turned into the same three people dominating every conversation while the rest of us just sit there, and I want to say something but I'm worried it will just create more conflict.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The democracy of good intentions often yields to the tyranny of the most vocal, leaving others voiceless and discouraged.

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