[marktwain]

Want to make it that, have every Republican Senator start pushing for repeal of the 17th Amendment. To use the Left’s idiom.....if they’re all so good and do so much for their respective states and constituents, then they shouldn’t fear having the state legislatures sending someone else Senate.

People who push for the repeal of the 17th Amendment act as if it would be a magical elixer to restore Constitutional checks and balances.

I do not believe it would be.

State legislatures may well be easier to bribe/corrupt than state voting populations.

Senators still represent the entire state, instead of a voting district.

A Senator from Rhode Island still has as much power as a Senator from California.

A major reason for the 17th Amendment was the high level of corruption among Senators.

[qaz123]

Don’t disagree. But nowadays it ain’t as easy to be that corrupt. Back in the day they didn’t have FOIA, digital records, whistleblowers, IGs, etc.

Are any of those elixirs but it’s bit it’s a bit more difficult to do things now then they did back in the day.

No easy answer but I’d rather Georgia legislators pick 2 Republicans than have every Leftist in the country doing what they can to get the two clowns in the senate that we have now.