How the Founders' original design would affect the US Senate

American Thinker ^ | August 28, 2022 | J.H. Capron

[central_va]

What you want to happen in expecting better people to serve isn’t going to happen, not with a 17th repeal. What it would require would be something exceptionally dramatic, and that would mean returning our nation to being a Republic.

That "somnething" would be a repeal of the 17th amendment!!!! It's not really that hard to figure out. Are you a progressive?

[fieldmarshaldj]

No, it would require the remainder of my post to improve the quality of our Republic and our elected officials. A large number of the present parasite class of politicians could not be elected if what I proposed were enacted. Repeal of the 17th just empowers the present corrupt class of politicians. We’ve been over this countless times. I wish it were as simple as you make it out to be, but it simply isn’t.

[central_va]

No, it would require the remainder of my post to improve the quality of our Republic and our elected officials.

The remainder of your post is a pipe dream. OTH Repealing the 17th is possible.

[fieldmarshaldj]

It’s not going to happen because empowering politicians is massively unpopular. Actually, you have a better chance of selling it to the left, so that they could guarantee their states would never elect a Republican again.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I agree. There is only one smart state in the country that has a unicameral system. All states that have bicameral systems are just fooling themselves if they think that somehow their assemblies will represent them differently than their senates.

There are parts of every state with farming or ranching that are necessarily less populated than the urban areas. These areas should be able to be part of an assembly that gives them equal say with regard to those in urban areas.

That was the way it was before that sad and illegitimate SCOTUS decision.

Yes, there was a problem of "rotten boroughs" when the population was really tiny, but not so much anymore. There's a city in LA County called Vernon that was essentially a company town. Libtards sent people in there to live in apartments and overturn the city council that was hand-picked by the companies in Vernon. But who's to say it was a bad idea for a city that was primarily made of up companies with few housing units, to be governed by people selected by the very companies that constituted much of its property?

[dila813]

Now, that has nothing to do with it

[TBP]

63-37. We could get something done, even with the RINOs dragging their feet.