If you think reducing the electorate for the US Senate back to a small handful of POLITICIANS will IMPROVE things, you’re daft. If would be exactly the opposite of what you want.
Yes. I think the local yokels would protect their rights and mine better than the federal criminals. If you think the election of senators by the mob has worked well, you may have been asleep for almost 7 years. Perhaps you think the IRS does not have enough power.
The 17th amendment sux.