Republicans don't want to govern, they want to rule. (That and to protect literal child rapists.)

It makes Republicans nuts that they can't gerrymander statewide races. Repeal the 17th Amendment and the already gerrymandered GOP state houses get to appoint senators and deny Senate representation to huge portions of the population - exactly what the Republicans are aiming for.

Sure we can do it this way if you want, but the 12th amendment goes with it. No more choosing your running mate. The vice president will be the runner up in the election, just like it used to be. You know “founder’s vision” and all that.

Can you fucking IMAGINE the constant meltdowns if Trump’s VP was Kamala?

Good luck with that. At the very least, he's trying to do it the Constitutional way, via an Amendment to repeal the 17th Amendment. But considering the high hurdles set in front of that process, I doubt this is going anywhere.

Scott Perry should be removed from his position.

Who is the "state" that would then elect senators?

Gee, do yoU guys thInk we'LL get thrOugh ThIs shit? it's Not likE itll change if midterms don't stop it.

Founding Daddy Issues.

it cant be repealed, it must be a new amendment to nullify the 17th. like the 18th, prohibition, was nullified by the 21st.

that will require:

• 2/3 congress (both houses) must agree, (thats 288 representatives, and 67 senators)
• then, 3/4 of the states need to agree (thats 38)

this is all political theater

The problem for Republicans is that senate races can't be gerrymandered. Sounds like this provision would solve that problem for them. You can just smell the desperation and fear.

uhhhh... dont the people of those states elect their own local senator? how the fuck does that equal federal overreach??

overreach by representation? are they saying the problem in the united states is that we are over-represented?

ohh right.. the fascism isnt even whispered anymore

Repealing the 17th Amendment will ... make the Senate more accountable to the people of Texas

You think not letting people vote will make senators more accountable?

What kind of nonsense is this?

It cracks me up that the cons have been able to paint liberals as being "elitist" based on aspiring to be better educated (see Santorum squealing that wanting everyone to have access to a college education is "elitist" for example).

Meanwhile, they openly do nakedly extremely elitist things like this.

Not to mention being positively giddy in their support for a billionaire like Donvict. It doesn't get much more elitist than that. SMH, the cons seem to delight in perverting the English language.

Well, if we're going to be thinking about the original vision, we'd better uncap the house as well. Having a couple thousand representatives in the house, each representing a much smaller group of voters, would certainly make the country run much more as intended.

How about, instead, we strip senators from congress and expand the housenof representatives to proportionally relfect the population.

If he wants to amend the constitution, there’s a process for that. It would probably take two years, minimum. I wish him luck.

Interesting that all the cosponsors are Republicans. The midterms have them quaking in their boots.

This one is a distraction. It's intended to distract from the methods they're really counting on.

Another win for accelerationism. Man who thought the republicans would speedrun the destruction of the republic like they have. I thought it'd take more than just a few years.

ELI5 does this even matter? The state legislators are elected by the people, why does it matter if those reps are electing the federal senators or the the people directly? Its not like you're going to get a bunch of lords nominated arbitrarily by the KingPresident?

Republicans don't want to govern, they want to rule. (That and to protect literal child rapists.)

Aren’t states already choosing their senators?

Repealing the 17th Amendment will restore that constitutional balance and make the Senate more accountable to the people of Texas and every other state in the union,

...That's what voting does you lying piece of shit. You just want permanent Republican control of the Senate, you never want to have a Democrat senator be able to exist in a "red" state which generally makes up the majority of states. Fucking asshole.

Translation - why should all that donor money go to campaigns and advertising when it could be going to bribes to state legislators instead?

Uh oh, did the poll numbers for the Texas senate election send them into panic mode? Or do they want to pick someone other than Paxton because he's not sufficiently pliable?

I would like to revoke the senate. It’s anti-democracy.

The 17th Amendment wasn't some progressive power grab. It was the system self-correcting after decades of obvious, documented corruption. Nine states had already moved effective to popular election through binding primaries before 1913.