Then, examine your actions. The question is not, will my actions work toward making my political goal a success. The question you need to answer is, will my actions realistically work toward making my goal a success. If your actions have no realistic chance of working, then you start exploring other possible actions which will have a better chance of success.
Realistically, repealing the 17th Amendment had zero chance of succeeding. In fact, by pushing that, you risk alienating some folks that would otherwise support you. Voters, for 100 years, have voted directly for their U.S. Senator. Some conservatives live in liberal neighborhoods in liberal states. Through no fault of their own, their state representatives and state senators may be Democrats. So now you're going to tell them that those Democratic legislators are going to select their U.S. Senator? It doesn't make any difference how logical and historical your argument is, the ultimate factor is that people will perceive that you are stealing their vote and giving it to someone else. That will never fly.
Keep pursuing this action if you want, but, in my opinion, it's wasted time which is ultimately working against your goals. Move onto some other action which has a better chance of success.
Im afraid there seems to be a miss-understanding between us.
I don’t dispute your findings, nor your conclusions on political reality as it stands today. I don’t even dispute the poor wisdom in directly confronting that political reality with the truth about Constitutional federalism and the 17th Amendment.
What I say here on that matter i say because it is the frank truth. So long as our State legislators have no means by which to protect themselves from Federal usperation in the senate. The Federal Constitutional system is fundamentally broken and will only deteriorate more over time.
Ultimately if we wish to restore the Constitution restoring the Senate will be nessary for any kind of constitutional stiblity, eyther that or something else even more powerful will have to take its place.
Politically speaking we might actually be able to get away with proposing an amendment to allow state legislators to recall senators. Althou ultimately we need something to force Washington to not only respect its constitutional bounds and stay out of the domestic sphere, or to force it. Perhaps a state appointed Constitutional court.