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There's a lot of value in meeting in person. For one thing, it demonstrates that you literally have skin in the game, which in matters of governance is very im
by danans 6y ago
There's a lot of value in meeting in person. For one thing, it demonstrates that you literally have skin in the game, which in matters of governance is very important, especially at the national level. There's a reason that peace treaties are signed in person after all.
- endisneigh 6y agoAgreed - however I think the meeting in person should be among the representatives and their constituents, not each other. Ideally AOC, for example, would be in a convenient location in her district and meet with members of her district who want to watch her represent them. The other advantage of this is when there's a lull (due to the boring procedural bits of governance) they might ask her to bring something up that's relevant to the current discourse.
- danans 6y agoI'd put equal importance on both their meeting constituents and attending Congress in person. Representing constituents shouldn't be a just in time operation, so I don't think there should be a realtime channel to the representative. But either way, in normal times, it's not like there are a lot of constraints on them spending lots of time in person in both places.
- cma 6y ago> There's a reason that peace treaties are signed in person after all. That maybe applies here, but I don't think a virus is going to take in-person meeting as a token of goodwill and go easy.