The problem is that the Progressive Movement spooked voters into pressuring their state lawmakers to ratify the 17th Amendment, giving general voters the power to elect federal senators. But more specifically, after elections voters go home and watch football instead of keeping an eye on their federal senators like their state senators had been doing. Progressive senators then take advantage of voter apathy by helping to pass legislation, like immigration laws, which wrongly usurp state powers.

So thanks to the 17th Amendment IMO, corrupt senators are now helping Congress to regularly bypass its Article V requirement to petition the states for grants of specific new powers, instead basically relying on a military adage, "it is easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to get permission," in order to illegally expand federal government powers.

The bottom line is that the 17th Amendment has to go.

This country is far from overpopulated. Have you ever looked at the vast expanses of open land? Certain metropolitan areas may be run over, but the entire country? Not a chance.