[McGavin999]

I totally agree. Senators look out for themselves, are the playthings of lobbiests. The states are not represented

[tom h]

While I don’t disagree with you that all politicians are whore and playthings, the lobbyist connection makes no sense.

At least Senators would not be beholden to voters, most of whom are dumb as bricks. And Senate races wouldn’t be popularity contests which elect men and women who are attractive or glamorous (e.g., Scott Brown or Kamala Harris). Electing people merely because they are attractive should be limited to the House of Representatives.

[prophetic]

Speaking of crooked senators, in the 2nd Star Wars trilogy it was the senator from Naboo who was the sith lord and was pulling the strings behind the curtains to get himself elected as chancellor of the senate to do the other things.

We have many evil senators in the usa with McPain being the foremost evil one in the pack. We see him meeting with the leaders of ISIS and other radical groups and colluding with the democrats in front of everyone as if it's no big deal.

[Pelham]

It was no different when Senators were elected by the state legislators.

The drive for popular election came about because special interests were buying off legislatures to get Senators that would do their bidding. The expectation was that popular election would change this, but as we can see it hasn’t changed it much.