The 17th amendment effectively abolished the Senate and in its place it created a redundant house of reps.
Although we may not have a population knowledgeable enough about the nature of their own Federal Constitutional system to understand the devastating effect of this change. Much less knwoalgable enough about the nature of freedom & self-government to understand the cost of what is and has been lost as a result.
We who know cannot in our hearts deny the 17th Amendment’s effect to ourselves, nor the need to not only educate our population on the Constitution and John Loche theory upon which it’s founded. But to eventually guide them back toward a health respect for liberty and the competing decentralized interest which are necessary to practically defend & preserve freedom.
Perhaps the worst of the worst effects is the lifetime appointment of dozens of radical leftists to federal benches. Political theory aside, would any of these anti-10th Amendment nutjobs since the days of FDR have had a chance if Senators looked out for State interests rather than reelection by the mob?