You have a problem with the direct election of US senators by their constituents???? I realize that the rich guys could just directly bribe their way to the Senate by buying state legislators’ votes, cash American, under the table, like in the 1800s. It is just a shame the way the peasants just mess things up by having a vote in actual primaries and elections, isn’t it? What is a spoiled rich brat to do to avoid their infernal meddling???
“You have a problem with the direct election of US Senators by their constituents???”
Don’t you???
You mean you did not know that the seventeenth amendment was a plank in the platform of the Progressive Movement to undermine and nuetralize the constitutional impediment to unlimited Federal Government power? And that it has been wildly successful? And that far from preventing the rich elites from getting control of the Senate, it has enabled them to?
The Progressives’ purpose in passing the Seventeenth Amendment, providing for direct election by popular vote of senators, was for the individual states’ elected representative governments to give up any representation they had in the federal government.
This led to the gradual slide into near irrelevance of state legislatures, and state governments became mere administrative units of the Federal Government. The popular-vote election of senators guaranteed an overextension of federal power and the rise of special interest groups to fill the power vacuum previously occupied by state legislatures.
Now we, out here in flyover country, have to put up with the infernal meddling of federal government lawyers to a degree that would have been unthinkable to the founders and writers and ratifiers of the constitution.