Reform will not emerge from Washington. If we are to peacefully save what remains of our freedoms and regain what was lost, it is time for the States to call an Article V Constitutional Convention. If Congress does not head it off on its own to consider a single amendment, repeal of the 17th, we have little to lose. Our consolidated government ignores our unalienable rights, separation of powers and is arming itself to put down mass confrontation. If Congress ignores the threat and the States convene a convention, we risk no more than where we are already headed, a consolidated government of unlimited powers bent on creating a perfect social justice Utopian hell.
We have the means to save our society and lives; let’s use them. Together, with the help of God, we just might save these United States.
Yes, the media, rats and rinos will come down hard on an amendment to repeal the 17th. So what? Gee, will they start to call us names? When was the last time we set the terms of the debate? The last consistent time was during the Ronald Reagan era. Today we get an occasional reprieve from, for instance, Senators Rand Paul or Ted Cruz. In the course of defending this amendment, we would educate a couple generations of Americans purposely kept ignorant of the magnificent bequest of our ancestors, the Constitution. This is an idea that conservatives should flock to.
Imagine a Senate composed of people who don’t give a rip what the left-media say about them. Imagine a Senate immune from popularity polls and whatever spews daily from Obama or Chrissy Mathews. Imagine a Senate that flips the bird to a President who even considers anti-10th Amendment radicals to the federal bench. Would such a Senate put up with an EPA or HHS that pushes their States around?
Jefferson stated that the reason the Senate was beholden to the State Legislatures was because he knew that Government would be filled with people lusting for power. His hope was that those lusting for it at the state level would keep those lusting for it at the national level in check.
/johnny
It won't happen. It's not like the country is besieged by an ultimate evil in DC, but all the states are white and fluffy. In fact, all levels of government are poisoned by absolute power. Huge evil in DC is followed by large evil in states' governments, then by medium evil in counties, and smaller evil in cities. Policies of San Francisco are a good example, and they are done on the city level. You will find evil and agendas even lower, like on the level of public schools! Nearly every government bureaucrat has a God complex.
There is yet another reason why this is happening. All these elected representatives are a countable set of people. They is actually not too many of them. Individuals can be easily corrupted, especially when they are facing the easy choice of doing the bidding of their donors and become reelected, or going their own way - after which they will be labeled as crazies and quickly defeated at the nearest election. If you aren't willing to bow and kiss the hand of your master, you just don't go into politics. Few people buck that trend.
Imagine a Senate composed of people who don’t give a rip what the left-media say about them. Imagine a Senate immune from popularity polls
Now you see where the roots of monarchism are? Such Senate is no different from a single Czar who is also immune from popular opinion.
As matter of fact, monarchism works great as long as you have a good monarch. The trouble is in cases when the monarch is not so good. The office of Czar is always heavily contested, and usually the most ruthless applicant walks up to the throne stepping over the dead bodies of his opponents - and often over the bodies of his supporters too.