Fortunately, the one thing you cannot gerrymander is a U.S. Senate seat. The same cannot be said for state legislators. I don’t want politicians electing politicians to “represent” me, especially when neither do. Repealing the 17th is the ultimate in statist politician empowerment.
Basically, you’re OK with a Senator simply being a statewide version of a Congresscritter.
Now we’ve found the nugget of your misperception, that Senators were invented to represent you. Under the original Constitution, they were to represent the states in order to be a source of further balance of power. I’d recommend a read of Mark Levin’s latest book.
You are not a conservative. It is a NATIONAL legislature. You may live in tyranny, but not everyone lives in a hell hole.
I still want to know what freaking moron first started pimping this repeal the 17th nonsense. Was his Majesty, Mark the Levin, the first? The first people that I heard pimping it were Alan Keyes and ZELL MILLER.
Even if it wasn’t a misguided and stupid idea (WHICH IT IS) it:
A)Has zero chance of ever passing. Z-E-R-O
B)Would be POISON for any candidate dumb enough to campaign on it
This is without a doubt, the dumbest fringe pet issue I’ve ever heard of. The ratio of bluster to relevancy is off the charts in favor of bluster.