Abolish the Senate???

"Whereas the Senate in particular has become an obstructive and useless body, a menace to the liberties of the people, and an obstacle to social growth; a body, many of the Members of which are representatives neither of a State nor of its people, but solely of certain predatory combinations, and a body which, by reason of the corruption often attending the election of its Members, has furnished the gravest public scandals in the history of the nation. . . ."

Preamble to a constitutional amendment introduced in the House of Representatives on April 27, 1911, by Victor Berger of Wisconsin

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TrashCat · M

I'll be honest with you. It's too late for me to be formulate an intelligent response to this so I'm going to say, YAY.
The entire senate is a mess and seeing that this Preamble was written way back in 1911, the senate has been a clusterfuck for over a century and if it ain't working for us, then it's time to get rid of it. The members of the senate do not represent the people, they represent the lobbyists and their stakeholders. These people all have like interest and it does not matter which party they belong too. They only battle for what is good for them, not us