Our Framers recognized the silliness of entrusting good government to the morality or conscience of those we elect.
It is why they designed a complex, compound democratic/federal government that divided power horizontally between branches and vertically between popularly elected members of the House and State-appointed senators.
It is why the 17th Amendment, which rendered our wonderfully balanced federal republic into a horrid and unbalanced democratic republic sure to consume itself in violence.
Oops. I meant to close my last sentence with “the 17th Amendment must go.”