"Overlapping laws and regulations hurt America.  Simplification and reconciliation should be a bipartisan objective." – The Lonely Realist A distinctive feature of democratic government is that rules and regulations are relatively easy to add … and virtually impossible to adjust revise improve dilute, yet alone eliminate. ...

TLR continues to ponder the question of what makes democracy so attractive and so enduring … and, more recently, so unstable (having discussed “The Widening Partisan Divide” here, America’s “Degenerative Democracy” here, and “America’s Broken Constitution” here).  What is the secret ingredient that has made...