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.