Repeal the 17'th amendment (Put the US senate under adult supervision)

in #politics7 years ago

Ever wonder how states like Florida whose legislatures are overwhelmingly Republican still vote for bad dem candidates for president, or how you get a dem senator in a place like Louisiana? What you're seeing is that manufacturing votes cannot buy a state house. In other words, dems can manufacture all the votes they want in places like Dade County or Philly, and the GOP will still win its own territories, it's only in a national or statewide race that vote manufacturing can decide a race for a public office.

That says that the very first thing we need to do is rescind the 17'th amendment and return the election of US senators to the state houses. The state houses are the most accountable element of US government. The U.S. Senate, at present, is probably the least accountable element of US government while also the most powerful other than for the presidency. Something is obviously wrong with that picture

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