But I think state governments like the system the way it is too. It gives everybody a chance to blame the other guy. Grassroots lacks the wisdom to request such a change, and in fact, IMO, is inclined to go the other way, e.g., even abolishion of Electoral College.
I'm afraid the people have lost control of their government, and they don't even know it.
The biggest complaint that state governments have is that they don't get enough money from Washington. I doubt the Senate would pass unfunded mandates on the states if the states control the hiring for the Senate. Furthermore, I doubt you'd see so much money leaving the states to be returned as federal funding with strings attached if the states chose their Senators. The money would never leave the state in the first place.
-PJ
I'm afraid the people have lost control of their government, and they don't even know it.The Founder's in all their wisdom, said that it would take an upright, moral, and God fearing citizenry, to make the Republic work. The liberal ideology, and their modus operandi, are the antithesis of the Founder's wishes, and if their agenda prevails, you are oh so right.!
Scoundrels, crooks, and moral degenerates, are not paying the price in elections, and along with a complicit press, their influence is permeating the electorate. I am not trying to be over zealous, but we are in a battle for the heart and soul of this great Nation, a battle we have to win.