In his call to abolish Senate filibusters (“ It’s time to end the filibuster — it blocks even routine governance ," Nov. 26), Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent personifies the basis of current dysfunction in U.S. politics: lack of trust, empathy, and insight concerning anyone with different world views. He ascribes all his own self-centered, power-grabbing motives to Democrats, and uses this belief to justify acting first -- like launching a nuclear first strike because one believes the other side thinks the same way and would do so, given the chance.

In portraying Democrats and Republicans as unified, warring blocks, Bessent doesn’t see or cannot accept that some Republican senators can reasonably support retaining filibusters and that the same is true among Democrats, and that the ques

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