I believe we can reform the filibuster back to its old way — that is, you would need a 2/3 vote to override, but in return, the people blocking the legislation would have to risk making utter fools of themselves by going down into the well of the Senate and trying to talk it to death. The entire American public will get to see what miserable, showboating wretches most Democrat Senators actually are under such circumstances, at least those Americans watching FOX, Newsmax, America’s Voice or listening to Sinclair radio affiliates.
As a bonus, repealing the 17th Amendment would put the Senate squarely into the hands of the states, meaning all those “backward, hillbilly” red states would truly have equal suffrage again with political abominations like California, Maryland and your Massachusetts. As De Tocqueville might have put it, our nation is indeed foundering on the shoals of (small d) democracy. The judiciary would then slowly also be more responsive to the concerns of the states, rather than the federal leviathan, IMO.
I agree. I believe the 17th Amendment has been destructive in ways that were never foreseen.