Reply #79: Maybe I did not understand your use of 'groupthink'.... [View All]

[Blackhatjack]

All parties with different ideas must conform those ideas to what is in their best interests.

In the past there had to be multiple votes at the Democratic Convention to arrive at a nominee. In order to agree on that nominee each voting delegate had to conform their vote to a candidate that 'best' matched their position on the ideas most important to them.

In that context you get a type of 'groupthink' since no individual delegate's full list of preferred positions was likely to be adopted. It was in that context that I addressed the concept of 'groupthink.' On some occasions, the top two candidates each had more support than all the other candidates, but since they could not bridge the gap and third candidate ended up being the nominee.