[muffaletaman]

The seventeenth amendment is probably worse than Johnson’s Great Society, and that is saying something.

OTOH without the seventeenth amendment, the great society could have never passed anyway.

[Jacquerie]

<>OTOH without the seventeenth amendment, the great society could have never passed anyway.<>

So true.

Also, there is no way state-appointed senators would have consented to the appointment, since the 1930s, of radical Leftist judges.

The 17A made the US what it is today, an authoritarian democratic republic in decline.