Some of em don't care about their kids. They can go fight, themselves.

Nah just ship the congressmen/women off with the infantry. Then they can see exactly what they're voting for.

Given the low regard for their children and grandchildren they show when it comes to climate change, I doubt that would be an adequate deterrent.

Most of their kids are 55+, they can’t enlist lol

As if someone like Trump would even give a second thought to sending his kids off to war?

I see an obvious exploit with this: congress members enlisting family members who would rather vote 'No' just so they can get more votes for their own choice.

You might think "nobody would enlist their child to fight a war that they're against" but I promise you, there are people like that.

Hey kiddo I really need my war mongering rhetoric to keep my polling up, you're gonna have to sacrafice for this family.

We basically had that a century ago, before the nobility moved behind the scenes and became the 1%

Unqualified scions were sent to the battlefield to gain military merits, which was generally bad for everyone. I'm pretty sure it only really stopped after WWI, when the death toll from combat started getting ridiculous

many have already gladly voted yes for both many times. I don’t think that will stop enough of them.

The problem these "add a meta policy" proposals all have in common is that they assume we have any control over the legislature... which we don't have; they don't work for us at all. At this point only organizing and other direct action will have any significant impact on actual policy.

In this particular case, legislators would continue to receive bribe income that they refuse to acknowledge as bribery.

The problem is the us hasn’t had a formal declaration of war since WW2. Basically we’ve just had military engagements. Some haven’t even been authorized by congress.

Basically we’d need to fix that issue before worrying about the other suggestions. Else it’d just be military engagement not a war so don’t need to fallow them.

Is the US even still involved in a war since 2021? At least through direct action.

You can be against war without thinking you'll end war.