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Filibustering is an emergent property of profoundly broken processes in our Senate. If remote meetings force some procedural change, that's probably in everybod

• salawat 6y ago
  I hesitated on bringing it up. It's counterintuitive, but I'm always reluctant to do too much to speed things up when it comes to mass communication and building consensus. I realize that it is basically a legislative DDoS attack; but it is also a way to buy time to organize thoughts and filter information for both sides while also depriving the body of the benefit of an overly expeditious vote. Would it be nice if everyone could just agree and move along? Yes, yes it would. Unfortunately, supermajorities are the realm of Walgreens advertising, and I still don't accept that there should not be mechanisms through which delay can be enforced. Then again, I'm not terribly well read up on legislative procedure either, so I may be pulling postulates out of my arse. If anyone is better versed in it, and wouldn't mind some explanation, I'd be quite interested. Then again, I could just read the damned rules. Is it strictly Robert's Rules of Order proper, or some specialized set of procedures?