True - but the problem was that the State’ politicians had entrenched their own power structures (still have in a way) so the only way to break through that logjam was to take the power of the senate election out of the state legislatures and to the people directly.
I still say it needs to be reverted but I understand what it was trying to “fix”.
<>but the problem was that the State’ politicians had entrenched their own power structures (still have in a way) so the only way to break through that logjam was to take the power of the senate election out of the state legislatures and to the people directly.<>
That was not an element of the arguments to popularize the senate.