What's also killing the Republic is libtards having maneuvered into positions of being in charge of public education. Kids are indoctrinated early on that up is down and black is white--so that they will faithfully vote as they were trained, in the good ol' libtard way. They are incapable of independent thought, but can mimic crap music lyrics and bulleted talking libtard points like good little parrots. Also, the media is overwhelmingly libtard, reinforcing what they learned in skool.
The 17th Amendment is what is killing the Republic