A post by a very wise friend of mine:
Favorites 16h Allow me to educate you. All of what needs to be done, can be accomplished by a constitutional convention of the states repealing the 17th Amendment: We've watched the political nest of party politics that the Senate has become and wondered how to fix it. Term limits? No, the founders set it up properly and we messed it up properly with the 17th amendment.
That change made the senators elected by general election for terms of 6 years and today with uninformed, name recognition voters, they enjoy a re election rate around 80%. The constitution as written had the senators chosen by the state legislatures to represent the sovereign state in the national legislature and if the senator failed to do this to the pleasure of the state, they were recalled and replaced.
Repeal that product of a progressive liberal administration and return the checks and balances of state representation to our national legislature.
This current system, under the 17 Amendment, was put in place in 1913 by the Wilson Progressive Liberal Misadministration and it has turned the states into provinces with no direct voice in our national legislature.....an abomination of the founder's intent for the sovereign states to be a check on an out of control federal government.
Now, we angst about the stacking of the Supreme Waste to keep this government within the narrow lanes of the constitution.....the fox watching the hen house.
In the same era, we passed and then later repealed Prohibition (18th and 21st Amendments). Repeal of the 17th would put the Senate back as a representative of the sovereign states with the state legislatures having full control of selection and recall of senators..... and immediately check the out of control federal government. Most of the adjustments will be on the part of the Deep State and the Senate lobbyists and that's fine with me.
We screwed with the system and now it is not working...…$27 trillion federal debt, military scattered across the globe in expensive and unnecessary bases, 1 year military occupation of Afghanistan with no stated goal, involved in everyone's business and can't control our own borders or spend adequate tax revenue on our own nation......this needs to stop.
Repeal the 17th. G.Gobel
Now one can ask, what good would repealing the 17th Amendment do? 1. It will force the government back under the restrictions of the 10th Amendment. 2. It will cede the intrusive powers being abused by the Federal Government to the states. 3, The COS can then reinforce the Bill of Rights, establish Castle Law and "Stand Your Ground" protection for appropriate self and property defense as originally intended by the Founding Fathers. 4. The COS can require any legislation be reviewed and voted on by the people to prevent another California style authoritarian state. 5. The COS can impose term limits so we never again have to deal with a Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff or any other self declared dictator in Congress.
