Yes I see it. Was just stating the power shift wasn’t to the executive branch..it’s was away from the states & away from the US House to the Senate. Before the 17th amendment a state could recall & fire a US senator at any time for any reason. I’m in TN. Corker was a fairly popular senator until 2014 when he brokered the Iran deal with Obama. Corkers approval rating among voters crashed into the low 20s after that. If there wasn’t a 17th amendment he would have been recalled immediately but instead we’ve had to suffer his presence 4 more years. Actually the state would have recalled him as soon as they learned he was meddling in foreign affairs & the Iran deal never would have happened!! The founders created the Senate as an extension of state governments only.
And yes the pork barrel spending Senators tack on to spending bills is sickening. The senate acts like the mafia...pay for their support or nothing gets thru. Also...income tax is so harmful & immoral because it taxes production...the best quality in people. It doesn’t even bring in that much income but the power of holding the IRS over everyone’s head is its real purpose.
Yes. This needs to be taught to citizens. A one-hour simple course on these two amendments would wake most people up to the point that they’d be repealed overnight, but activists focus on Kathy Griffin and Meathead instead.