Did The U.S. Senate Perform A Coup On The Body Politic A Century Ago?

Simple Logic Points That Way. 

Amendment XVII to the United States Constitution is most puzzling. It quietly, and without any fanfare, removes the remaining vestige of State Government influence from Washington, D.C., and effectively dissolves any further pretense of federating the States. 

Or, to phrase the action more dramatically, the amendment blew up the federation and firmly installed popular government throughout Washington, D.C.   State Governments were sent packing, with their tails between their legs.  From now on, we-the-people will run our own national government and you state governments can sit there on the sidelines and wither away as we incrementally diminish your importance.

One hundred more years have passed since that time.  Those conspirators knew exactly what they were doing, and achieved it beyond their wildest dreams.  Not only have we-the-people been misled out of the single districting system the Founders thought they were putting us in, but we have been misled out of our states, also.

We have been led into a totally partisan system of statewide elections where meaningless districts are piled on top of each other.  Our so-called reps are chosen for us by partisan conventions, as we dutifully go to the polls every two years to rubberstamp what the partisans did for us.  We are all being “schooled” in the new lockstep that is destined to drive out whatever remaining free spirits who are still among us.   Our lives are becoming more somber, more desperate, as a cacophony of exhortations presses us from all sides.

The Founders thought they were setting us up in districts of about 40,000 people each.  We should be living as communities of 40,000 people live.  Let the neighboring communities do what they want.  We will do what we want.  We are a nation of 8,000 such communities.

We each have our unique governing systems: County, Township, Town, City, or whatever.  Whether 400, 4,000, 40,000, or 400,000 people per community, “equality of governing voices” is the rule for operating the federation of states.  We need to adapt whatever size community we are in, to that rule.  But our local communities, of whatever size, should continue to function as integral communities.

The Founders designed an elections system of equalized voices, all coming from what would today be 8,000 local districts.  All political actions of whatever nature were to originate from those local districts via their local reps.  But the States have consistently refused to organize their citizens into such a set of districts.

Meanwhile, the saboteurs find ways to throw monkey wrenches into the system (Amendment XVII).  Pure logic says the amendment was a conspiracy by the senators themselves to escape the districting system of elections and become blatant politicians. If so, their terms should be shortened to 4 years, one being elected each two years.  Or, really, does the nation need a U.S. Senate?  Eight thousand reps totally committed to their districts’ welfare, should be quite stable.