I asked you a question first and you didn't answer.
I have yet to get an answer from you.
My legislature members serve for 4 years. If they do something I don't like, I have a chance to get rid of them every 4 years.
U.S. Senators serve for 6 years. If they do something I don't like, I have to wait 50% longer to do anything about it.
If my local legislature elects someone to the senate that I don't like, I can kick them to the curb.
I prefer to keep the control at the state level, like the federalists intended.
I’ve already answered it.
I question your reasoning because like many anti-17thers, it remains unsound and lacks any reasoning where the dynamics of today’s politics are at. You continuously believe that by removing an amendment that addressed the issue of a FAILED experiment by the Founding Fathers (that which hoped to have Senators jealously standing up for states rights and balancing that against the federal system, which never panned out) that it will somehow work this time. You know the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome.
Again, you put your blind faith and trust in politicians. I do not. I do not want my left-wing legislators choosing my U.S. Senator when neither have either my best interests or the interests of the U.S. Constitution.
As an example, do you realize given the makeup of the Colorado legislature that you’d still have two very leftist Democrat Senators, neither of which would be in favor of anything other than a moonbat agenda, expanding federal government and getting every last $$ of pork.
I’ll remind you again that what the “federalists” wanted was based upon presumptions of how things would be expected or theorized to work (and often of compromising principles at that), not HOW they would ultimately work out for the long run. Again, they also preserved the rights of slaveholding, too. This was not infinite wisdom, but political expediency.