Lower levels have “recall elections” for this explicit reason.
They’re not built into Senatorships, because people weren’t even supposed to vote for Senator’s, state governments were supposed to just appoint them as the states representatives
The house was for the people to have representation, not the Senate.
We’re way past the point of salvaging our system, there’s a reason the founder’s wanted to redo the constitution every 20 years
Lower levels have “recall elections” for this explicit reason.
States have rolled a lot of that back, or made it so prohibitively expensive to attempt that only billionaires can oust a state politician they don’t like.
I might argue that the problem isn’t Fetterman specifically, but the stakes at play when someone like Fetterman is a singular representative for 13M people. One Fetterman in a sea of politicians would be annoying but incidental. One in a tiny cabal that’s on a tipping point of partisan control is glaring in it’s corruption.
Lower levels have “recall elections” for this explicit reason.
They’re not built into Senatorships, because people weren’t even supposed to vote for Senator’s, state governments were supposed to just appoint them as the states representatives
The house was for the people to have representation, not the Senate.
We’re way past the point of salvaging our system, there’s a reason the founder’s wanted to redo the constitution every 20 years
States have rolled a lot of that back, or made it so prohibitively expensive to attempt that only billionaires can oust a state politician they don’t like.
I might argue that the problem isn’t Fetterman specifically, but the stakes at play when someone like Fetterman is a singular representative for 13M people. One Fetterman in a sea of politicians would be annoying but incidental. One in a tiny cabal that’s on a tipping point of partisan control is glaring in it’s corruption.
Recall elections aren’t part of any elected federal offices, not just senators.
Selection of US senators was changed because having state governments pick them was prone to corruption.
I just finished reading Allow Me to Retort, which is brilliant:
https://thenewpress.org/books/allow-me-to-retort/
It is an in-depth review of what a dumpster fire the US Constitution is.