I've been thinking about this a lot Overall if I had a political platform it would involve going back to smoke-filled rooms for candidate selection, repealing the 17A, and overturning Reynolds vs Simshttps://twitter.com/paulg/status/1277913984558120961 …
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Replying to @eigenrobot
you would really really regret 17A repeal (you'd probably also regret losing 1 person 1 vote tbh)
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Replying to @eigenrobot
by the time they passed 17A people had figured out that by far the thing they most cared about in state legislative elections was who would be sent to the Senate imagine current SCOTUS nomination drama but every two years in multiple states
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Replying to @AlexGodofsky @eigenrobot
also far from empowering state governments, 17A ultimately eviscerates them as mere nominating organs for the federal government, crippling their effectiveness for other purposes
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Replying to @AlexGodofsky @eigenrobot
the thing people blame on 17A - a strong federal government and weak states - has precisely the reverse cause people WANT a strong federal government because that lets them impose their will on more people. to get it they will happily sacrifice the states.
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Replying to @eigenrobot
buddy you also have to live in the state that they sacrifice
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Ah yes my state which currently has a murder zone near my house defended by pristine unbiased local government
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