Abbie Hoffman wrote:
I do agree with Emilia's meme comment.
The Ivory Tower leans left.
I am highly educated.
It appears that you are not as highly educated as you think you are.
First off, you rely on the tweets of two other people, neither of whom are highly educated, to back up your argument. The opinions expressed in both tweets are seriously flawed.
Emilia's tweet - under the 1st amendment of the Constitution of the United States, the free practice of religion applies to all faiths. Sharia Law, on the other hand, prohibits the free practice of any other faith but Islam. Our Constitution does not establish a theocratic government, Sharia Law does.
Max Berger's tweet - Apart from the racist implications in that tweet, Max has no clue. I doubt if you or your two examples of brilliance have ever actually studied the Constitution. If you had, you would know the House of Representatives is the people's house, members are elected by the people of their respective states. (Article I, Section 2, paragraph 1)
OTH, Originally, Senators were chosen by the state legislatures. (Article I, Section 3, paragraph 1) the Senate was supposed to represent the state legislatures.
Federalist #62 explains:
HAVING examined the constitution of the House of Representatives, and answered such of the objections against it as seemed to merit notice, I enter next on the examination of the Senate.
The heads into which this member of the government may be considered are: I. The qualification of senators; II. The appointment of them by the State legislatures; III. The equality of representation in the Senate; IV. The number of senators, and the term for which they are to be elected; V. The powers vested in the Senate.
I. The qualifications proposed for senators, as distinguished from those of representatives, consist in a more advanced age and a longer period of citizenship. A senator must be thirty years of age at least; as a representative must be twenty-five. And the former must have been a citizen nine years; as seven years are required for the latter.
The propriety of these distinctions is explained by the nature of the senatorial trust, which, requiring greater extent of information and tability of character, requires at the same time that the senator should have reached a period of life most likely to supply these advantages; and which, participating immediately in transactions with foreign nations, ought to be exercised by none who are not thoroughly weaned from the prepossessions and habits incident to foreign birth and education. . . Put simply, Representatives, as the name implies, are chosen by the people to represent the interests of the people of the state. Senators were chosen by the state legislature to represent the interest of the state.
Beginning in 1826 attempts were made to amend Article I, Section 3, paragraph 1 intended to put the election of senators in the hands of the people. By the 1890s, support for the introduction of direct election for the Senate had substantially increased. Congress passed the 17th amendment on May 13, 1912
Then, in 1913, along came the father of progressive socialism, the democrat POTUS who immediately waged a campaign to push congress into convincing the states to ratify the amendment. They did so on April 8, 1913.
The 17th amendment effectively undermined the purpose of the US Senate and turned the entire congress into mob rule.