At the California Green Party organizing convention held in in Oakland, some delegates advocated that any decisions would have to be made by unanimous vote. One argument was that Native Americans decided issues by unanimous vote, even if it took them weeks to reach a decision. I objected to this on a number of grounds. First of all, most of us did not have weeks to decide issues. Secondly, I didn’t know enough about Native American governing structures to know if that were even true, and was it true for all groups? Finally, allowing one person to hold up a decision is the most undemocratic form of government there is. It basically means rule by one person.
Which brings us to Tommy Tuberville, the Senator for Alabama who is single-handedly preventing the military from staffing decisions. This is not Tuberville’s fault. The Senate had 100 members. They presumably make rules. If their rules are that arcane, that stupid, that ridiculous so that one Senator can decide for the 99 others, then there is something basically wrong with the U.S. Senate.
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