Democracy needs a central authority to enforce the vote system. Bitcoin is not a democracy, it's a voluntary voting system based on the individual's wish
the network is made up by the individuals. agreed and by connecting nodes together they form their own decentralized system without a corporate dictator or human leader.
emphasis distributed/diverse authority
however you and carlton want blockstream to be the central dictatorship removing the individual voting.
no one owns the network nor should own the network in the future.
stop flip flopping in the hope of gaining peoples favour into loving blockstream as a dictator
So an oligarchy of a few 100 people is preferable, where they have the right expertise, each one can correct the error of the others,and nobody can become a monarch
1 oligarchy is the same as a monarchy/authoritatian/dictatorship (EG royal FAMILY)(EG banking partnership)(EG UK conservative party)
we should atleast continue to have MANY GROUPS where they have the right expertise, each one can correct the error of the others,and nobody can become a monarch.