So did the passage of the twelfth amendment in 1804 destroy our Republic? Should we repeal it and get to what the framers had in mind in 1788? They must have been smarter than the people who came up with a different method of picking the Vice President years later, right?
You are arguing apples and oranges. I'm not interested in your idiotic analogies. The 17th Amendment basically destroyed the 10th Amendment and transferred all that State power to Washington.
Senators now represent themselves and the corporations that contribute to their re-election rather than the States to which they come from.
Previously Senators had to go before their State Legislatures every 6 years and beg for the opportunity to keep their jobs. Now all they need to do is to get enough American Idol viewers to think that they will bring them other people's money and give them goodies and they get themselves re-elected by the mob.
Senators now are beholden to low information voters and corporate sponsors. They routinely ignore the best interests of the States from which they hail.