IMO, your confusing consensus with power. I don’t think consensus gives you power. Ultimately consensus is only useful if all participants are willing to take

IMO, your confusing consensus with power. I don’t think consensus gives you power. Ultimately consensus is only useful if all participants are willing to take the same action together. That is powerful. But consensus that says “hey, China, you should have better dealings with us” but then none of the participants have the backbone to do anything, then there is no power and the concensus is worthless.