DesertRhino: I think you are actually 100% correct in your assessment. I once thought a Concon would be a good thing. But then I started considering that whatever conservatives would hope to gain (and there are much less conservatives than Republicans, as they definitely are NOT synonymous) out of a Concon, you have to think the liberals would be chomping at the bit to convene a Concon for all the havoc they could do with the Constitution. They could finally put in things that up to now really are not found, such as a right to abortion, same-sex marriage, as well as destroy our freedom of speech, freedom of religion, right to bear arms, etc., etc. Right now we are not in a position of strength, especially when a good percentage of the Republicans in office already are eager to sell us out!
“DesertRhino: I think you are actually 100% correct in your assessment. I once thought a Concon would be a good thing. But then I started considering that whatever conservatives would hope to gain (and there are much less conservatives than Republicans, as they definitely are NOT synonymous) out of a Concon, you have to think the liberals would be chomping at the bit to convene a Concon for all the havoc they could do with the Constitution. They could finally put in things that up to now really are not found, such as a right to abortion, same-sex marriage, as well as destroy our freedom of speech, freedom of religion, right to bear arms, etc., etc. Right now we are not in a position of strength, especially when a good percentage of the Republicans in office already are eager to sell us out!”
Many of our ‘leaders’ may have sold us out and the democrats may largely control the field. But it really doesn’t make much of a difference anymore. I too fear them doing terrible things to the Constitution, but i also see them doing the same things thou their employees in black robes anyway.
What we are essentially worried about is a peice of paper in the hopes that one day we might find a government that cares what is written on that paper enough to reverse all they’ve done to it. But i think that if such a revolutionary government ever did come, that paper would be of no more real uses to them and their successors than it is to the present government in Washington.
Washington’s Employees in black robes are not going to suddenly start upholding the Federal Constitution as written and practiced for 200 years simply because they don’t have to due to being unaccountable in practice, and they don’t want to being ideological nuts appointed by other ideological nuts unwilling to do such things themselves.
While a balanced budget amendment may do almost nothing to restore the Federal Constitution as written and practiced for 200 years, an amendment to make Washington more accountable to State interest would give us a tool to at least make the Text of the Constitution meaningful as a compromise between competeing powers again, and God willing shift the power back to our state between which we as individuals can at least vote for our rights with our feet.
The idea of a Constitutional convention of our states supports the idea of restoring power to the States more than thou Washington itself as at least a Constitutional convention of states is more incline to be run by actors interested in the power of their appointing state governments.