Exactly. It’s sad that they fail to see that the best Senator in that body today (Cruz) could not have even been elected with the repeal of the 17th, yet they keep humping away at this fantasy notion of theirs.
Question 2) in post #76 unanswered. FM doesn’t know what his right to vote for senators is supposed to accomplish.
Question 3) in post #80 is unanswered. FM is certain he has the right to vote for senators, but has no opinion as to popular election of presidents and federal judges.
Question 4) in post #84 is unanswered. FM has no comment regarding the foundation of our republic, separation of powers.
FM and his sidekicks haven't learned the lesson of the last hundred years, that which the framing generation learned in eleven. From the experience of ancient republics and that of the thirteen new states, they knew that democratic republics inevitably work toward anarchy, class conflict, social disorder of such virulence that they typically terminate in a dictatorship.
That is exactly where we are headed, and our fate is inevitable absent renewal of vertical separation of powers.