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What about an organization which regularly flies ordinary[1] individuals to Washington[2] to meet with their elected officials while in session? I tend to beli
by _srobertson 15y ago
What about an organization which regularly flies ordinary[1] individuals to Washington[2] to meet with their elected officials while in session?
I tend to believe that, in the US at least, most congressmen are not overtly corrupt; rather, SIGs and political news organizations exert influence by drowning out other, often more reasonable or correct sources of information. A steady stream of meetings with constituents may serve to re-ground politicians in a way that's faster and arguably more genuine than trying to cut through a wall of special-interest noise by throwing up our own wall of special-interest noise, no matter how much wiser we believe our (individual and collective) positions to be.
It also seems a relatively inexpensive strategy to test.
[1] That is, who spend most of their time in non-political activities.
[2] Or your capitol of choice.