charlie, while I am on board with the notion that Putin encourages discord in Us, as well as in other democratic countries:
40% is for the Senate, not for hoi polloi of representatives who are supposed to represent people’s passions.
It was probably a mistake to make Senate elections direct (17th amendment, 1912). This makes Senate in some aspects similar to Representatives, diluting the diversity of the forces embedded in the constitution. Progressive period has a bad streak of amendments (all in the name of improving people’s lives, of course) – Senate election is between direct federal income tax and prohibition and women’s votes :).
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