I think statesmen CAN be produced by the current system, but certainly not by returning to the prior system with its rampant corruption. The desire to have Henry Clays, John C. Calhouns and Daniel Websters won’t make it so. I’d rather modify who CAN vote. Universal suffrage is too close to direct democracy. Voting should be a privilege, not a right, and should fall on those with skin in the game, not parasites bleeding the nation dry.
“Rampant corruption”?
Gee ... update your rhetoric with a bit or proportionality of what rampant corruption actually is, please, when you compare today’s soiled chamber pots with yesterday’s common dinnerware.