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“Oh Concensus - The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?'” - Margaret Thatcher


That sounds much more like a description of compromise rather than consensus.



This assumes that consensus is achieved by cutting or subtracting from the original idea rather than adding/enhancing it.


Performatively resolute as always, Maggie!


How ironic!




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