The Founding Fathers are rolling over in their graves seeing the complete failure of The Great Compromise in the Constitution. The notion of your two senators protecting your perspective states has long disappeared.
Arkansas and So. Dak. had both of their [RINO] Senators sell them down the river.
“The notion of your two senators protecting your perspective states has long disappeared.”
Yep, it started when the 17th Amendment was ratified.
<>The notion of your two senators protecting your perspective states has long disappeared.<>
You mean “respective?”
Anyway, thank the 17th Amendment.
Once senators represented the people, a body already represented in the house, there was greater congruence between voters and their representatives in congress, with corresponding less opportunity for input from the states. For congressmen the 17A diminished opposition to their constituencies, increased their power, and made their votes more important to progressive special interests.