In response to candidate Mario Benassi’s representation of the assembly as myopic, I looked it up on Dictionary.com: 1. unable or unwilling to act prudently; short-sighted 2. lacking tolerance or understanding; narrow-minded.
I began to think about collective decision-making. I do not agree that the assembly is unwilling to act prudently, but it may be unable to do so because its character is a crystallization of the majority weighing in on the matter. Is the…