alt Hacker News> It is a dialog.
It's as much of a dialog as they allow for people to express their views. If I write a politician a well reasoned, thorough explanation of why I support or oppose something, the best outcome I get, as a non-lobbyist, is having a "for" or "against" viewpoint tallied into a giant bucket.
So if elected reps are going to distill our "dialog" down to an aggregated tally of support or opposition, then a canned email covers the entire dialog that's allowed.
We are very talented at distilling the noisy information going through the web each day into lists. Let’s distill diplomatic topics and their sub topics into lists as well. Let’s keep the lists around. They should be as indefinite as the topics they trace. Do some tech-AI-open-source-local-… stuff to compile our many mouths into the lists they belong. Unstructured data-> structured data.
Compile collective thought by semantic meaning. Each person should be able to influence the whole proportional to total participants of the list.