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AoS HQ contributor Oregon Muse ranted about one of my favorite topics today; the direct election of US Senators.

Here's a bit more on the topic of civics ignorance: Social media, as you might suspect, is rife with it. and the progressives seem to be the most passionately and aggressively ignorant about how our national government is supposed to function. Yeah, I can see your shocked faces all the way up here. What the progressives seem to hate the most right now is the U.S. Senate, presumably because the Republicans have a majority there, and so therefore President Trump is pretty much guaranteed an acquittal in the shampeachment trial. I've seen some tweets about how California with it's teeming millions get two senators just like the scattered few ranch owners and sheepherders in Wyoming and how that's Just Not Fair and Something Must Be Done.

Some progressive nitwits are even calling for the abolishment of the national senate.

They have no idea what the senate's actual purpose is, do they?

Of course, they almost have an excuse. A wisp of a ghost of an excuse. Thanks to the XVII Amendment which rewrote Article I, Section 3 so that senators would henceforth be elected by popular vote, instead of appointed by the state legislature, as originally intended. So now the senators are just another kind of representative, and so they're difficult to distinguish from the actual representatives in the House.

Amendment XVII introduced a distortion into our system of government as it knocked out one safeguard the founders specifically included to counteract mob rule under the guise of "democracy."

They correctly understood that the states needed representation at the federal level. Not the people, their representation is already handled by the House of Representatives. It's he states as entities in themselves that need representation. We are not like other countries that are merely divided into regional administrative units (like 'departments' in France or 'prefectures' in Japan), but rather each of our states are different, each with it's unique origin, history and with cultural and and linguistic differences, and some, like Texas ans California, used to be their own countries before they were states. In fact, the original 13 states were 13 states before they were the United States, their different governments existed before there was a national government.

Now, there's more at the link but I think the last paragraph sums it up nicely. I suggest reading the entire piece.

AoS HQ contributor Oregon Muse ranted about one of my favorite topics today; the direct election of US Senators. > Here's a bit more on the topic of civics ignorance: Social media, as you might suspect, is rife with it. and the progressives seem to be the most passionately and aggressively ignorant about how our national government is supposed to function. Yeah, I can see your shocked faces all the way up here. What the progressives seem to hate the most right now is the U.S. Senate, presumably because the Republicans have a majority there, and so therefore President Trump is pretty much guaranteed an acquittal in the shampeachment trial. I've seen some tweets about how California with it's teeming millions get two senators just like the scattered few ranch owners and sheepherders in Wyoming and how that's Just Not Fair and Something Must Be Done. > Some progressive nitwits are even calling for the abolishment of the national senate. > They have no idea what the senate's actual purpose is, do they? > Of course, they almost have an excuse. A wisp of a ghost of an excuse. Thanks to the XVII Amendment which rewrote Article I, Section 3 so that senators would henceforth be elected by popular vote, instead of appointed by the state legislature, as originally intended. So now the senators are just another kind of representative, and so they're difficult to distinguish from the actual representatives in the House. > Amendment XVII introduced a distortion into our system of government as it knocked out one safeguard the founders specifically included to counteract mob rule under the guise of "democracy." > They correctly understood that the states needed representation at the federal level. Not the people, their representation is already handled by the House of Representatives. It's he states *as entities in themselves* that need representation. We are not like other countries that are merely divided into regional administrative units (like 'departments' in France or 'prefectures' in Japan), but rather each of our states are different, each with it's unique origin, history and with cultural and and linguistic differences, and some, like Texas ans California, used to be their own countries before they were states. In fact, the original 13 states were 13 states before they were the United States, their different governments existed before there was a national government. Now, there's more at the link but I think the last paragraph sums it up nicely. I suggest reading the entire piece.

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