Just off the top of my head, I don’t want my state legs voting on my Senator. It’s bad enough I’m effectively disenfranchised and have no representation. I’m in a State House district that elects White moonbats. I’m in a VRA-mandated State Senate district which only elects racist Black moonbats, my vote as a White person doesn’t matter.
I’m in a Congressional district that hasn’t elected a Republican since Ulysses Grant won a second term in 1872 (and that only because two Democrats split the vote in the general, one running as an Indy). So U.S. Senator is the only office where I can conceivably have a say. Take that away, and I’ve got nothing. And I’m in a heavily GOP state !
‘It’s bad enough I’m effectively disenfranchised and have no representation.’
Then no matter what system we have, you are ‘SOL’.
That’s a non-issue to be honest. You are trapped behind enemy lines, and yet you still help us, such as that informative post earlier.
We in the liberated areas will do our best to help.
FRegards ....
The anti-17thers always conveniently ignore the fact that congressional districts and state legislature seats tend to be heavily gerrymandered and rigged to elect a certain type of legislator. Probably 60-70% of americans are effectively powerless in the outcome of their congressional races and state legislative races. I know I'm in that boat. Several times, a solid majority of the regions in my district have voted for a Republican to represent us in the state senate, only to see the district go Democrat as a whole because 1/3rd of the district is in within Chicago city limits, and that portion gives 95% of its votes to the RATS, thus disenfrancing the other 2/3rds of the district's residences. A small bloc of black voters in Chicago basically guarantees that my heavily suburban state senate district will elect nothing but white Democrats.
My current "representation" in the Illinois State is some worthless Mike Madigan sock puppet. He's so wedded to Madigan's agenda that even though he's a state senator, he won't even prioritize bills that originate from the senate or his own Democrat caucus, if his boss Madigan has some house bill they want to fast track.