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Seriously what is with you fucking faggots who think an unelected senate is better?
What is with you faggots who think having an elected Senate is good? Who cater to the whims of the people that elected them (which is actually suppose to be the intention of the House, not the Senate), special interests, and whatnot.
The whole idea behind the senate is to give the smaller (in terms of population) states more say.
Exactly, however the Seventeen weakened that power by (wait for it), not having the Senators chosen by STATE legislators!
If we had a unicameral legislature, the 5 most populous states could pass whatever the hell they wanted.
Exactly why there was a compromise between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan, the latter which purposed a unicameral legislature, and if that passed instead, I'm sure we'd all be cursing William Patterson right now.
Having an elected senate at least gives accountability to the voters.
Having a popularly elected Senate has the government cater to the whims of short-term public scare bullshit like the latest flu nonsense or something like that. The House is suppose to be directly accountable to their voters, by taking away the ability of the individual state legislatures (who are even held more accountable to the voters in their states respectively) to appoint Senators, you just took away Senators being completely accountable to the states they're suppose to represent. Good job shooting the voter in the foot without them even realizing it.
Besides, why should I have a doucebag Senator from my state vote on some bullshit bill that'll benefit another from 1,000 miles away? Good luck trying to get a hold of him. At least in the pre-Seventeenth days I could have bitched at my state legislature to have him get his act together in the Senate, since he's directly accountable to them and thus me, via proxy.
Not to mention they don't have to campaign and ass kiss using millions of dollars of wasted money, which could be better spent toward something of real value. Plus, it's already bad enough that they're the red carpet crowd and completely disconnected from the common person, it'll probably give them less of a feeling that being a Senator is prestigious.
I also see it as another check of balance of power, as it's easy enough to corrupt the Senate and most of the House, I imagine it would take much more power and influence to do that fifty more times over to corrupt all the state legislatures.