There is a reason we have a republic, and not a pure democracy. You know it, and I know it. You just pretend not to know it now, because you have a nefarious motive: take control away from people you think are "deplorables."
Legislators are there to consider secondary effects. The average voter does not often consider secondary effects. Primary effect good? Great! Vote: Yes! But, secondary effects happen, which is why referendums often end up passing bad overall policy...policies that would not get out of committee in a legislature.
My point about direct elections for the Senate was to expose your hypocracy. I'm not sure if you are serious about this either, because you should be able to understand a basic argument: You use a pro-democracy argument on the 17th, but you use an anti-democracy argument on gerrymandering. I think you are feigning ignorance, and trying to shift that ignorance to me, so that you don't have to directly address the hypocrisy.