Seniority should have NO place in determining Congressional power!
Each State’s Senators and Representatives should have the same power. Just because some third-world dictatorial State/Congressional District keeps sending the same person does not make them more important than one that sends a new person each election.
Last time I looked at the Constitution, “No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States” Article I, Section 9, Clause 8.
Also, Thomas Paine said, “Dignities and high sounding names have different effects on different beholders. The lustre of the Star and the title of My Lord, over-awe the superstitious vulgar, and forbid them to inquire into the character of the possessor: Nay more, they are, as it were, bewitched to admire in the great, the vices they would honestly condemn in themselves. This sacrifice of common sense is the certain badge which distinguishes slavery from freedom; for when men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon”.
Campaign finance reform caused it. You cannot have a successful campaign without money from your party, they control who comes in...not perfectly but good enough. The only thing either party hates more than the other is anyone else. They make rules that prevent choice, like President Trump and when that happens, they are willing to burn down the barn, to prevent anyone from doing effective government.
Campaign finance law violations happen every election, but everyone PDJT has met is subject to malicious prosecution that has never been before. Do we have free political speech? No. SCOTUS was wrong and the media did not squawk.
Every time we elect someone that cannot take the oath of office (upholding the constitution as written) we are electing a traitor.
Tough talk but real.
DK