[quantified]

Discussion can be had all year long, but the executive caste will maintain it. There's no law or peaceful incentive to change the tendency. It's important to them that the plutonomy be maintained and extended.

[ixtli]

I’d go further: the myth of “discussion” as some sort of tool to resolve these issues benefits them and them alone.

[PKop]

Carl Schmitt critiqued liberal democracy with this very same premise. The myth of the disinterested neutral "discussion" seeking consensus optimal solutions, (vs the reality of factional interest groups fighting for 0 sum spoils and power).