<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Good point. Do you and does anyone have any idea how to get rid of the gridlock and hostility in D.C.? Our so-called democracy is not working as such. Members of Congress are expected to toe the party line and if they don't their state doesn't get much help re anything. Leaders have all the power (though I did read where that late and not lamented Senator from South Carolina, Strom Thurmond, held up legislation just by himself).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 1:56 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 5:17 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><font size="4">It seems to me in that case you've got to have online virtual meeting and voting, but one of the very few things that both House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell agree about is they don't like that idea. But neither has offered an alternative solution<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.</span></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Nor are they likely to. I've read the report; while there are some cybersecurity challenges, those can be overcome to secure the votes of a few hundred people which the US government really does depend on. The other excuses they offer are BS.</div><div><br></div><div>The real problem is that, without everyone being in person and thus subject to well-practiced in-person methods of influencing them, members would more likely vote the interests of their states or districts, rather than the interests of the political parties. This is of course completely unacceptable to Congressional leadership.</div></div></div>
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