How would Alinskyites hijack a conservative grassroots movement that is taken through state legislatures?
Can you explain that? I don’t think you can.
And if they can, then why have they not done so?
Your thesis is flawed on its face.
A Constitutional Convention is a Wild West crapshoot.
You seriously believe you can hold a Constitutional Convention and prohibit certain US citizens from participating?
Those who oppose it forget that we have almost nothing to lose: our chances are next to none otherwise. The republic will come to an end with certainty if we just try to sit things out. Obama will appoint judges that will support his re-writing laws through fiat (his own 3rd term, total weapons ban, mandatory public service for all healthcare providers, you name it...)
He already has nearly enough with the defection of Roberts, one more and it’s over. It’s better to take risks while there is a chance.
I agree.
The problem is cultural. We will not be able to force a set of rules via a proceedural end run, on a populace that does not support us enough to give us victories in elections.
If it cannot be done in elections now, what makes you think they would see this new magic constitution we write and say “well, they got us, now we have to obey these new rules?”
It would head straight to the supreme court just like Obamacare for interpretation. There is nothing you can write, that they cannot “interpret” into meaninglessness.
There is no substitute for winning in the marketplace of ideas. This is just a legalistic version of a military coup that happens when someone wants to have power they cannot win at the ballot box. So they seize it.
A con con used as a way to overcome what we cannot win at elections, is like using roofies to get a girl in bed.