[c7DJTLrn]

I'm not a resident of the USA but it doesn't seem like it would be very effective. Members of Congress only seem to care about filling their own pockets via lobbying and insider trading. Improving the country seems to be an afterthought for them and even if they wanted to, they're too out of touch to do so. Hence the end of net neutrality, the constant bills to kill privacy, and the way they waste the time of big tech CEOs when they call them in every 6 months.

[MattGaiser]

Members of Congress behave like mostly unmanaged employees with bad incentives behave.

If you had a team where the manager didn't ever do anything except send copy/pasted messages out via Slackbot and where the workers were in high demand from another manager who could offer them a lot more (as well as threaten their jobs a lot more), would you really expect those workers to be working in the interests of their manager?

As that is the state of American politics today.

Complain about Congress all you want, but fundamentally the people chose them and decide whether or not they get fired. Most people are just absentee managers.

[stutsmansoft]

Can confirm. They don't care, at least my reps in Texas don't.

I get form letters loosely related to the issue I complained about, and sometimes not even remotely related.