I did not understand reconciliation in the Senate at all. Recently I learned a little more about it. This made me jaded for many a post intended to make me angry that they didn't use it. I can see it is limited. But am not sure yet how it applies and what it could cover or not.

Same with the filibuster. It is complex to me and I don't fully understand it and don't know enough history. Tentatively I am for abolishing it, because the Senate already weighs down the majority with its disproportionate representation. But then someone could point out something that the Rs would have gotten without it, and I don't recall all that much recent history on the subject.

I don't really understand the effects of NAFTA and GATT. Those terms get thrown around on DU as the root of all evil, but I refuse to jump on that bandwagon unless I understand it, but don't understand enough to argue with that either.

I've learned to have no opinion on any court decision until I've looked at it. The news reports and the posts are full of opinions that lack understanding and are designed to just try to get you to be upset on some surface thing that it imperfectly understood.