The corruption will just shift to state legislatures, after the 17th is gone.
17th Amendment fantasy. They failed to realize that corruption was a problem in the early 20th Century. Remember Governor Blagojevich attempting to sell Obama's seat in the Senate? It was kinda like that.
I think we messed up with the 19th Amendment because America basically became a democracy at that point and the federal government has expanded rapidly ever since then.
If you don’t think the news media was not spinning the news back in the 1900s just as much as they spend it today, i have a bridge in Brooklyn forsale.. . The narrative that it was corrupt back then was spun by the media so the 17th would pass.... who cares what happened in one state capital, hell its Illinois..lol. its always corrupted there... there’s 50 Capitols and I don’t think all 50 of them would ever be corrupted but we certainly have everything in Washington corrupted with fedzilla, the Deep State and all the other malfeasance that goes on there. The media sucked back then just as much as the media sucked today. I’d rather spread the corruption out across 50 state capitals then with a couple party players and a bunch of K Street whores with big bucks buying politicians via the parties and giving us the taxpayers funded politicians that make us choose between a communist and a turd. Removing the 17th Amendment will put us back to the constitution of Republic our founding fathers put in place. Your comment basically says the founding fathers were stupid... and Woodrow Wilson got it right with JP Morgan assisting... right.