[Hostage]

The 17th Amendment was more damaging than most can see, and for those that see, more damaging than can be imagined. Without the 17th, the US Senate would be much more conservative.

It's harder for lefty crooks to control the makeup of a state legislature than for statewide offices like Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State. For example. Philadelphia can manufacture votes to control statewide offices, but the crooks in Philly can't easily gain control of the state’s representative districts.

Pennsylvania is blood red except for a couple of urban hellholes where cheaters manufacture outcomes.

The Founders arranged that state legislatures would choose their State's two US Senators. This ensured a republican arrangement to include a state's far-flung areas would have a say in who was to be their US Senators.

There are 18 states that similarly have an urban hellhole choosing/rigging who should be US Senators. If the 17th Amendment was kicked to the ground leaving the nation as it was originally founded, those 18 states could produce 18x2=36 US GOP Senators in addition to up to 50 retained in the Midterms, for a total of 86. Sounds crazy, but it's not.

More than 66 US GOP Senators could convict Biden and remove him from office.

And what was the Era called when the 17th slipped through?

Ans. The "Progressive" Era.

[Political Junkie Too]

Are you sure you meant this for me?

I don't disagree with what you said, but I didn't talk about the 17th amendment at all in my post.

-PJ