If your demcent org is not discussing openly and you're not allowed to voice your opinion or be informed, it's not a demcent org. You're supposed to be able to disagree (in a comradely fashion, of course) and all opinions should be heard and discussed - and then when it comes to vote time you agree to act in accordance with the majority. Youre even able to bring it back up later it's not set in stone and also you're supposed to be able to recall leaders at any time. You're not supposed to just do whatever leadership says, that's got the central part I guess but its missing the democratic.
I'm not suggesting open discussion does not occur among topics involving all org members, but that closed discussion also occurs at various levels in every org and that there are very much circles of trust with increasingly tighter controls on information or reasoning for decisions. Smaller tight orgs tend to have less of this but the larger ones have a lot of it out of simple necessity.
If your demcent org is not discussing openly and you're not allowed to voice your opinion or be informed, it's not a demcent org. You're supposed to be able to disagree (in a comradely fashion, of course) and all opinions should be heard and discussed - and then when it comes to vote time you agree to act in accordance with the majority. Youre even able to bring it back up later it's not set in stone and also you're supposed to be able to recall leaders at any time. You're not supposed to just do whatever leadership says, that's got the central part I guess but its missing the democratic.
I'm not suggesting open discussion does not occur among topics involving all org members, but that closed discussion also occurs at various levels in every org and that there are very much circles of trust with increasingly tighter controls on information or reasoning for decisions. Smaller tight orgs tend to have less of this but the larger ones have a lot of it out of simple necessity.