yeah, i can't think of anything better than letting the hacks in state legislatures appoint u.s. senators.
only a complete idiot could possibly think this is a good idea.
I HOPE you are kidding Del, cause if ya ain't...that IS the DUMBest fuckin' thing I've ever seen expressed publicly.
While I agree that the quality of state legislators had degraded over time. I would remind ya that the same bunch of dumbasses that have been voting them into office, have voted a community organizer who has never held a public job in his entire life to be president of this country!
That is what I'm talking about. The problem is NOT the legislators. It's the fact that the 17th amendment was the biggest voter suppression scheme ever inflicted on this country and it was done by progressives who convinced an uninformed electorate that it enhanced democracy...even though we DON'T HAVE A DEMOCRACY!
In reality, it was a simple plan to keep voter turnout low in the off years so that special interest...such as the supporters of a progressive agenda....could organize turn out the vote groups and skew the results in their favor.
If you want to know if there was some agenda besides the best interest of America involved in the amending of our Constitution...just look at the year it was voted on and see if it was the year of a national election or an off year.
By the way, Article V of the Constituion is the part about amending it. The last phrase contains something that is EXTREMELY telling of what the founders thought the roll of the Senate was.
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Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate."
Just for the half whits out there who believe men with names like Washington, Madison, Jefferson and Franklin are idiots...I'll explain the part that's bolded in that phrase. "
and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate." It says no STATE can be deprived of it's equal Suffrage...equal VOTE...in the senate. Not that no Senators can be denied their vote, no STATE can be denied their vote. Senators were viewed as the STATE'S voice in Washington and each STATE had an equal voice....2 Senators.
Now had they intended for the Senate to be the same as the House of Representatives, don't you think that just MAYBE the guys who were smart enough to establish an entirely new form of government and the greatest country in the history of man using 4500 words...less words than are on this page of this thread...that they just MIGHT have realized they mentioned the Senate and not the House in that Article?
NOTHING in the Constitution was by accident. It says what it means and means what is says and there ain't been 2 elected officials since the ratification of the Constitution who were smart enough to write a single amendment...little on 17 more!
Can you say anchor babies? Freakin' morons!
