[beerandt]

I think that's the idealized version of what's happening. In reality, one side gets loud 24/7 advocation broadcast nationwide, the other side's advocates are silenced by intimidation.

What you're calling social contexts isn't an organic situation. Society didn't decide the context, so much as the context desired by some has been cherry picked and amplified.

Dissenters are ostracized, then the alternative is proclaimed as what society has decided.

It's the social version of communist "elections," where you can vote for whatever candidate you want, as long as it's a communist one.