The problem with senators is that they have a six year term during which they do not have to worry about being accountable to their constituents.
That’s a long time to consolidate power, make alliances and build a war chest. That’s a long time for voters to forgive and forget when the senator repents and does a flurry of last minute good deeds right before their election.
Making matters worse, their elections are state wide, so they adopt the democrat strategy of ignoring the low population density rural areas and concentrating their campaigns on the voter-rich high-density cities and suburbs within their state - which means courting urban liberals and their corrupt, big-government, redistributionist, community-organized welfare states.
It’s the same principle as tricker treaters preferring the dense housing developments to optinize their haul of candy. Why would a tricker treater want to hike up mile-long driveways that are miles apart, to dark farmhouses with barking dogs and where the farmer probably already went to bed anyway, with a shotgun leaning up against the foot of his bed?
This is a fact. And I think they deserve only one term.