[throwway120385]

Well yeah, in a consensus-based process you have to accept that not everyone is going to agree with you all the time. But you do have to try to push forward on things where there is consensus. There was a county committee that had a libertarian on it who would often advocate from a libertarian standpoint, whereas the people the committee affected were often more left/collectivist. However, he found himself briefly aligned with the rest of the group when a county official tried to do something that was against the law.

[andrewflnr]

Dude, what is your point? We're pointing out a trend and you keep trying to counter by pointing out exceptions. It's the nature of real-life trends to have exceptions, so their existence doesn't even come close to invalidating the model.