There must be something that cuts across all of these. And the idea was the Senate would be a chamber for leisurely deliberation for the major issues.
Nobody has two minutes of uninterrupted time.
So the external conditions are radically changed. So the question is how flexible are the existing institutions themselves. We're fortunate, the Americans are lucky, because our system is generally more flexible and certainly more decentralized than the other industrial states. Which gives us a better shot. But I don't believe that the system can continue in its present form.