You are kidding, right? Look at when crap really started going wrong, it was during the Wilson administration when we got the 16th and 17th Amendment AND the Federal Reserve. The 17th took the power of the states away to control government mandates. Now all we have are two Houses of Representatives with no one to put a halt on government power grabs. Do you think the states would have allowed their representatives to jam cap and trade down their throats? Do you think the states would have allowed Obamacare? Medicare? Medicaid? Federal takeover of schools? And the list goes on and on and on.
In a word, yes. You can’t be that naive to think state legislators would magically become high-minded with respect to the U.S. Constitution. The 17th was passed because too many Senators were already becoming too far removed from the wishes of the people (and were often puppets or puppetmasters of powerful interests). You also ignore the political dynamics of many states that would never be able to elect Republicans, let alone Conservatives of any stripe.
I’ll leave your ignorant thoughts for you to sort out. You are wrong on this issue.
And, no, I’m not kidding. Some state legislatures are just as corrupt as the regime now in power. Do you really think that Marco Rubio would’ve been elected if it were up to the states? I think not. On the other hand, we would have a majority of DEMS in every seat,if left up to the states.
And, yes, we probably would have had cap and trade by now, if let up to the states. The stupidity of Americans who vote for these liberals are to be blamed, but, I doubt that anything would be different if left up to the state legislatures to select our senators and house representatives. Look at those who were appointed to fill interim positions. How many of them were conservatives? NONE!