It's annoying and frustrating, just like sending messages through local officials before reaching your senators. Revoking the 17th amendment just leads to more unnecessary bureaucracy in government.

I agree. I have had the good fortune of having personal meetings with both of Michigan's senators, and I can all but guarantee that would never have happened if they didn't get held to account by the voters now and then. It's a really amazing thing, actually.

I think that might be a reason people want to vote for Trump as well. They think he'll "tell it like it is" and start explaining government, but in reality he's just going to make his public interactions a series of Twitter flame wars and the few times he actually attempts to explain what's going on in government he's just going to show his complete moronic idiocy on how things really work and botch the whole thing and mislead the public with false information. Unfortunately, we'll have no way to fact check him when he's talking about secretive procedures so when he says something we'll have no idea if he's telling the truth because his track record of telling the truth is spotty at best.

Yes, laughable, really. The man is on record as saying that lying is part of his everyday interactions, but that so long as he gets his, why should it matter? This is the type of thing he says on record, and for some reason people take it as evidence of his honesty. If the big bad wolf tells you he's going to eat you, you should believe him.