JKSCHW at aol.com:
> Yeah, early in my political career I became a great fan of a somewhat reduced
> Robert's Rules. Working people with families have no time for this
> anarchochildish consensus bullshit. When I chaired meetings we started on
> time and finished our business in an hour and a half at most. Three cheers
> for liberal democracy!
There's no particular reason to believe that liberal democratic procedures in themselves will lead to better racial or cultural balance, however. What they seem to do in the outer world is lead to a sort of public legitimation of a constitutional dominant or ruling class who acknowledge some sort of debt to the unwashed while ruling them -- a bourgeoisie, one might say. Historically this class has admitted representatives of the lower orders not through internal procedures (usually) but when some activist, trouble-making external group has broken the general consensus on which the arrangement rested. The new are then made like the old.
Imitation of this sort of thing, the liberal State, by radical groups seems to lead to those depressing public meetings where Important People on a dais hector the multitudes gathered below them, after which everyone goes home and nothing much changes.
Unfortunately, it's not surprising that people under oppression ("working people with families") favor arrangements which comport with their oppression. There's only so much you can fight at once.