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 it so the senators were elected by general election for terms of 6 years and now.....today, with uninformed, name recognition voters, senators 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 congress and if the senator failed to do this to the pleasure of the state, they were recalled and replaced.
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 act as a check on the power of the 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.
A 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 then immediately check the out of control federal government we now have. Most of the resulting 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...…over $35 trillion federal debt, military scattered across the globe in expensive and unnecessary bases, 19 year military occupation of Afghanistan with no stated goal, involved in everyone's business and can't control our own borders or manage to budget and spend adequate tax revenue on our own nation......this needs to stop.
Repeal the 17th.....but, in order to do that with this sad, divided and partisan congress we need to use the backdoor the founders provided in the constitution...it will take an Art V, Constitutional Convention of the States.
G.Gobel.
