It would also allow them to hide out while making decisions that screw us...
What do you think they do now? At least we would be able to make them explain their actions. Torches and pitchforks seem to have a stabilizing effect on one’s actions.
“It would also allow them to hide out while making decisions that screw us...”
They use DC as their fortress and pleasure palace, away from local consituents.
When you put prison inmates together in prisons, that’s so lame because they network and educate each other. Too much inmate-to-inmate private contact.
And when you put political types together where lobbyists can host grand events in mansions, that’s even more foolish if it can be avoided.
One of the ‘go-to-guys’ on this would be Mark Levin. In Men-in-Black he chronicled how DC corrupted an otherwise honorable supreme court justice through his DC-exposed wife. Guess what court decision he drafted?
Roe-v-Wade.
Why? Because his wife was indoctrinated by the DC beltway and then she indoctrinated him. It was not an isolated instance either. Nixon had noticed it was a regular pattern and was deeply concerned about judicial nominees’ wives.