The 17th amendment: A danger to the republic
By Dave Agusta
We know from their writings and the actual makeup of the Constitution that the Founders had pretty strong ideas about some concepts.  They wanted to avoid a pure democracy and they wanted a system of checks and balances with separation of powers.

James Madison wrote in Federalist Paper #10, "...democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been in their deaths."

Benjamin Franklin is quoted as defining democracy as "two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.  Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."

We know also that the Founders wanted the individual states to retain certain rights and powers, such as the ability to write laws. This concept was important enough that they dedicated the 10th Amendments to ensuring those rights: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

One important way they used to ensure the individual states had a voice was in the brilliant creation of the bicameral Congress. The House of Representatives is the voice of the majority of people in each state, with the number of representatives based on population, a principle of democracy.

The Senate is the intended check on the pure democracy of the House. As the founders wrote in Article 1, Section 3, "The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, chosen by the Legislature..."

Then in 1912 Congress approved the 17th Amendment, calling for direct popular election of Senators and it was ratified by three-fourths of the states.

This effectively negated the important concept the Founders put in place, specifically checks and balances. The state legislatures would no longer have a say in the Congress.  Federalism took a major hit.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/01/the_17th_amendment_a_danger_to_the_republic.html

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Now the focus is on eliminating the EC, and when that happens we can kiss our Republic goodbye!