bailey//rockruff⚪
we often talk about unity. what we don't talk about is how unity often leads to putting the opinions of people we "like" more over the opinions of others because listening to everyone and weighing every option is "too much work"
this can be solved by having smaller groups that all come to their own conclusions and then meshing together to make bigger decisions.
but instead, we insist we gotta do things like simplify decision-making into reductive shit like voting. "majority vote rules"
bailey//rockruff⚪
balance is the key to life. majority vote is a form of imbalance, a way to uphold the status quo and ignore minortiy/marginalised voices. it's a way to reduce decisions to "yes" and "no" when they're always way more complicated.
it pushes the idea that compromise is needed when what we actually need is consensus; instead of doing what the majority wants, we can instead do what has the most benefit to everyone involved, or at least whatever route has the least consequences overall
bailey//rockruff⚪
this often requires decision making that is done on multiple levels, with lots of involved discussion, debate, and perhaps even a whole slurry of multiple outcomes. we can't just streamline everything by insisting everyone in an entire country has to follow one specific set of laws/rules. not even having a set of rules on a per-city basis is specific enough. laws are always meant to cater to the majority, and we cannot treat politics like they're absolute.
bailey//rockruff⚪
what we can do, is let everyone have a say in the discussion, to the people they have to spend time around the most; the other people in their communities. it's super easy to talk within smaller groups and make decisions that benefit EVERYONE as much as possible. not everyone will be happy, no, because no system is perfect. but it's a much better system than "entire country votes on binary issue"
for larger issues, representatives can be used, though it's preferable to keep power small.
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