We can all disagree in this pseudo-democratic nation managed by power elites bent on keeping the masses semi-educated and semi-literate–but consensus in the end is the mandate. To disagree with mandated consensus is to be excommunicate and anathema, socially. The dogma of all Americans acting Americanly is to reach consensus after they disagree in any verbal exchange. What we have mostly is a ping ping match of monologues. There is no democratic dialogue in America. If we had dialogue, real trenchant democratic dialogue, we would not need to scramble for consensus after extending our disagreements into tangentially drawn monologues, themselves indicative of how our favorite game in America is hop-scotch with the truth It’s absurd; it’s grotesque; this demand for consensus. There isn’t even a thread of coalition drawn up in the paradigms of these consenses. But then reality is by consensus, isn’t, often determined by popular consensus rather than or before other philosophical criteria.
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