"An Autocracy! Just Like The House!"

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because now you are grown.

The 17th Amendment allows for the direct election of Senators, instead of allowing the state legislatures to elect them. Aside from the 'direct democracy' issue, the fact was when the state legislatures elected them, party politics made the process distinctly horrible and inefficient. In fact, it wasn't uncommon for a state to go without a Senator for a while because the legislature wouldn't decide.

So how does this make the Senate an Autocracy? Well, you can ask Muir, and he would no doubt give you a mess of gobbledygook. Because you know, it changed the Constitution. Which was divinely inspired. So divinely inspired that the Founding Fathers gave us a means to amend if necessary.

Idiot.