Ain’t much more “progressive” than putting complete faith and trust into elite politicians. I don’t trust politicians.
Yep. Supporting repeal of the 17th goes against the basic principle of conservatism 101: that we need LESS government because individual citizens, and NOT politicians, make the best decisions over our lives. Conservativism is the idea that there should be limited government at ALL levels, that big government should NOT be making decisions for us that we can make on our own.
Those who support the repeal of the 17th argue the opposite approach: letting individual citizens decide who their Senator should be has destroyed our Republic, we need bigger and more powerful political elites and governments to make that decision for us, because we can't trust the people to handle their own affairs. The same argument used by the left to mandate things like Obamacare and gun control.
For possible penetration: The Senate was designed to represent the state not the individual. Some people like centralized power(you) and some people believe in the original republic.