Eventually the voters would put state governments in the hands of Socialists, who would send Socialist Senators to Washington. Rendering the 17th. Amendment moot.
With one major exception, there’s nothing in the Constitution stopping the states from being socialist governments even if the Constitution stops the feds from going socialist.
In fact, state sovereignty-respecting socialist Justice Louis Brandeis had noted that the states, not the federal government, are laboratories of democracy.
Laboratories of democracy
The exception to states going full socialist is that the states cannot make laws which effectively abridge rights which the states have amended the Constitution to expressly protect. Doing so would violate Section 1 of the 14th Amendment.
14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Again, federal Social Security and Obamacare are examples of unconstitutional federal social spending programs which are based on 10th Amendment-protected state powers, and state revenues uniquely associated with those powers, that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification federal government stole from the states. This is evidenced by the following excerpts from Supreme Court case opinions.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. [emphases added]” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
For example, when Obama was an Illinois state senator he should have led state government leaders to establish Obamacare for Illinois. And if Illinois Obamacare had proved successful, then he should have pushed for a healthcare amendment to the Constitution to establish Obamacare nationally, although the states could have chosen not to ratify the amendment.
Instead, low-information voters supported Democrats in 2008 who wrongly established national Obamacare without the required consent of the Constitution’s Article V state majority.