[Political Junkie Too]

It will be much harder to do with a complicit Senate in place to block any reform. The states must repeal the 17th Amendment via Article V before anything else can happen from within the federal government itself.

-PJ

[Jim W N]

Nobody said it would be easy and much damage including the 17A has already been done. But you shoot yourself in the foot when you say nothing can be done until an Article V action is taken.

MUCH can be done in the meantime among the American people individually and in the individual states as outlined.

Article V requires aggregate state cooperation as well as federal cooperation and such proposals continues to be a long, drawn-out process and each step must be done accurately. Hope it is done right. Could be a disaster if done wrong, but I support the effort.

In the meantime, we need action NOW, beginning with the American People educating themselves on THEIR most precious political document, the Constitution, which protects their most precious and fragile political freedom, and states saying “NO!!” to unconstitutional federal acts.