The post correctly notes that the 17th Amendment (1913) replaced state legislative selection of senators with direct popular vote to combat corruption, and draws a parallel to modern gerrymandering where state legislatures control House district boundaries before voters participate. The core historical fact is accurate; the modern parallel is valid but somewhat compressed—gerrymandering does shape outcomes, though court intervention and redistricting requirements provide partial checks. The implicit critique is that we solved one democratic corruption problem but face another.