For "reasonable everyday people", it should be easy to get 60% of a group to agree on what is good. But for partisan politicians, maybe that can't happen with an approximately equal split of parties. If the filibuster is eliminated, the majority party will just reverse everything the previous majority party did. That is not good for the country to reverse course every 4 to 8 years on policy - trade agreements, treaties, etc. If they can't come to a 60% agreement on proceeding, it is better to have a policy that results in nothing done. A government with their hands tied is in many cases the best outcome for us as opposed to what they could do. Keep the filibuster is it is. Sad that our best hope is that group accomplish nothing except making themselves wealthy.