I think we have to come to the revelation, though we could and should have long ago, that identifying ways an ostensibly functional system has been corrupted is not going to be enough to fix it. Not if it is essentially dysfunctional.

Reform of the federal system is truly Sisyphean. It’s the law professor’s mentality. “If we make congressional rules thus…” Except that Congress makes its own rules for its own benefit. This outcome is entirely what that institution is inclined to desire. I suppose that Constitutional amendment concerning rules could do something, but I write that entirely sarcastically. I’ve had a recent awakening on Nullification/Civil War etc. and thank God. I think law professors are the root of evil in our political system. The impulse that drove Lincoln to hold the states together by force is the same impulse that seeks to regulate and centrally plan an economy. It’s the same impulse that seeks reform through rule changes.

Some ‘libertarian’ law professors seem to love Lincoln.

You can’t repair this system (congressional rules), you need to repair something else entirely. Indeed, this website isn’t a place where people would not understand that, but calling out others on this is a good strategy.

I think it’s considered bad in the same way being a fan of both gasoline and fire creates an unecessarily combustive environment.