Can America Become a Democracy?

Yahoo! News ^ | Sun, October 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM CDT | Patrick Iber

[MinorityRepublican]

As for bribing sitting senators, the senate investigated ten cases of alleged bribery or corruption between 1857 and 1900. In only three cases did a senate committee conclude that the charges had merit.

Only documented cases that we are aware of.

In reality, it was more than that.

[unclebankster]

People forgot that corruption was a thing before the 17th amendment. It used to be that you could buy your seat in the Senate.

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I have no problem with repeal advocates.
I just think we’ll still end up with mediocre Senators and not much will change in a positive direction.

I’d love to be wrong, if it ever happened.

[MinorityRepublican]

I have no problem with repeal advocates.

I just think we’ll still end up with mediocre Senators and not much will change in a positive direction.

I'm against the repeal of the 17th for several reasons.

While we are talking about amendments, I think the passage of the 19th Amendment had the greatest impact.

But we'll never going to be able to repeal the 19th. And we shouldn't anyway because we'll never win another election with that on the platform of the Republican Party lol.

[Olog-hai]

And how much more easily are they bribed now?

[MinorityRepublican]

At least I get to vote on my Senator.

Rather than have the state legislature select the Senator for me.

If my Senator is corrupt at least I can vote him out of the office.

[Olog-hai]

Made irrelevant by th lobbies. The Senator is supposed to represent the state government, not special interests.