On filibusters

The advantage of filibusters is it makes it harder to change things, so once changed they tend to stay that way rather than reversing with each change of congress. The disadvantage is it makes it harder to accomplish anything. Those are part and parcel of the same package. It empowers a minority opposition, but that is what it is designed to do. There are worse things than the filibuster though. A majority of the majority is just another means of filibuster, but one controlled by an even smaller number, yet this is not enshrined in rules and only a majority of the majority could change this.