Since the Democrat Party has lost 2 of its major issues (abortion and guns) and the racial hatred stirred up by Obama is receding a bit, I believe that all they have left to win is going hard core on communist envy. That’s a heavy lift.
Dear @allenanalysis, the theory is that the State legislatures would curb the “bad” behavior of the senators. The Anti-Federalists wrote about this and pointed out it is a false hope. With a 6-year term, the Senators will play rope-a-dope with the legislators just like they do the voters.
BREAKING: Some Republicans are pushing to repeal the 17th Amendment, which would end the direct election of U.S. senators and return the power to choose them to state legislatures.
The 17th Amendment, ratified in 1913, shifted Senate elections from state legislatures to voters as part of a broader effort to increase public accountability.
If enacted, it would represent one of the biggest changes to the U.S. electoral system in more than a century.
Right now we have 2 major political parties. This is why the communists choose to be Democrats as opposed to forming the DSA as a separate party.
So I have typically been against forming a separate 3rd party... shades of Ross Perot who gave us Climton.
It's beginning to look like the 2 major parties could both morph into 2 parties. So 2 x2 = 4.
We cannot have 4 "major" parties. It could devolve into elected officials ruling with 25.1% of the votes.
Get out and vote. Save our country. It's not fun to vote for the lesser of 2 evils, BUT at this point in time, it's not about you... We need to save the country!
VOTE!
Dear @AGHamilton29, this is not shocking. Putin is infected with the same virus as most modern “leaders”. They want bloodless war. And they get defeated.
Here is a stat that might shock people:
More than 3X as many Russian soldiers have died in the Ukraine war since 2022, which Putin started just to take over a neighboring country, than American, Israeli, British, Italian, and French soldiers combined in every war since WWII….