The Dems are going to come to a deal in the next day/week/month, it will pass, and then six people are going to write "is that anyway to run a legislature" pieces in major outlets and my head is going to explode.
Yes, in fact, this is how legislative politics in a republic works.
I'm basically convinced at this point that's there's no real-world legislature that people would accept as a good process, because most people have been fed the fairy tale of the grand Senate speech, reasoned debate, and deliberation as persuasive rhetoric finding consensus.
This thread (and its subthreads) go down this rabbit hole.
https://twitter.com/MattGlassman312/status/1443701440908759049?s=20
None of this is to say institutions themselves can't be improved. Indeed, one reason to alter institutions is to improve quality of the messy deliberations. That's real.
But trying to alter institutions to *remove* the messy deliberations is just trying end legislative politics.
But trying to alter institutions to *remove* the messy deliberations is just trying end legislative politics.
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