Long Long ago, when Mur still ran the game I remember the game being built, evolved, and flourishing when the people WERE MD. At a time the decision's, actions, and sometimes unkowning rp decided what MD became. Now with the council I feel that its some "greater force" that decided, passes judgement, and acts all on its own, often against the people opinions as has been seen several times in the forum.
As with any game, or in real life, people hold their own views and are judgemental. You put a group of those with the same general views ans you get a one sided council. Say the whole council loves cheese. Who is to stop them from making all our candy into cheese? As far as we have seen, even mass negativity twards the council by the public on views doesn't change anything.
True councils are voted in, much the same way as we did kings. Councils hand picked by "a higher power" tend to make one sided decisions or gear twards a specific goal that the people view are not their own. Kings as we saw eventually were "overthrown" and replaced. I still view that some Kings/Queens were excellent representatives of their land as leaders. Some were not. At least than the people got a say in the matter.