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I agree that the fight must now be fought at the state level. It's all we curently have between us and the federal monster chewing up our nation against our will.

That's pretty much the way I see it. The states should have balked a long time ago at the unconstitutional mandates handed down from the Mount in DC. I'm sure books could be written explaining why it didn't happen. Then again, there might be a simple explanation. I suspect once the federales got their nose under the tent, say, back during the other depression(maybe before?), they marveled at how easy it was to slip a little socialism into our republic. Apparently neither the states nor "We the People" made much noise, but not being much of a student of history, I don't know that with any certainty. Fact is, there wasn't another civil war over it so as far as the feral government was concerned, "No harm, no foul"???

We must work to overturn the seventeenth amendment either by actual amendment or by instituting state election/selection procedures which qualify under it's current "popular vote" requirements.

JMO, but I'm not convinced it would make much difference in the overall scheme of things, but it certainly wouldn't hurt the conservative cause. I'm sure the Founders probably got it right re choosing senators but aside from relieving the state legislatures of some of their rights and some technical merits I don't see it as a major problem. Just a problem.

Recall drives which might work to alter the balance of power in D.C. also are an option.

Doubt you could get enough people involved unless things get a LOT worse, but whadda I know. Iceland is having some fun these days, eh?

The founding fathers provided that the interest of the states themselves be represented in the senate. They provided representation for the everyday person in the "peoples" house, or the house of representatives. This ensured a balance would exist between the two interest and that anything coming out of congress would be reflective of the middle ground between the two.

The seventeenth amendment effectively stripped the states themselves of their portion of this "balance of representation". It gave the common man BOTH sections of the legislative branch and installed democracy where once a representative republic once existed. This "balance" must be restored if we are to take back our nation. Anyone who is selected by the legislature of a state will surely be beholding to the interest of that state or he/she will be replaced. Those who are uninformed don't win state legislative seats and can not be fooled by demogougary as can too many voters in the general public.