Wow; another post that is 100% wrong. You’re really knocking them out of the park today! Are you gonna challenge for the title? You shouldn’t; you’re generally a pretty good guy.
I get you, but symbols matter. Maybe they shouldn’t (in some deep sense), but they do.
I’m reminded of how Zapata and Villa led their separate troops to victory in the Mexican Revolution. Entering the deposed president’s office, Villa sat in the presidential chair, then suggested Zapata take his turn savoring power. Zapata refused, precisely because of what you alluded to — that this was the PEOPLE’s victory (to depose a corrupt and aristocracy-coddling system).
The symbology of who sits in certain chairs and what they represent still resonates, and can have real consequences on behavior and thinking and trust.
I’m a Federal worker, and back in the Before Times, my computer at work would lock up if I left it alone for 15 minutes. Hell, when I access work via VDI from my exurban home now, it breaks the connection after 15 minutes if I leave it alone. I don’t work with anything related to national security, just protecting survey respondents’ privacy. So why don’t Congressional computers behave like that?
ETA: And from one of the pix, I see they have the same crappy email system we do.