“Tenth Amendment Powers” is excellent!
“States Restoration”
“Rebalancing Powers”
“Leveling the Legislative Playing Fields”
Many ‘positive’ slogans and phrases can be used to steer the movement into activities and discussions that are distraction-resistant.
Indeed. It doesn't appear premature for doing a little PR spadework here. Just as Levin/ALEC have done so much "spadework" as to rules, procedures, and subject matter of the Article V COS, maybe we need to anticipate the public "reaction," once the COS hits the radar screen of the MSM and the other usual suspects, and try to prevent negative fall-out.
First we have to learn not to shoot ourselves in the foot by, e.g., avoiding language that invokes past history — mainly Democratic Party artifacts, such as Jim Crow, segregation, George Wallace, et al. — but which no longer suffices to describe the real situation on the ground right now. Second, we have to learn that it is always unwise to gratuitously provide the ammo that your opponent — let's face it, your enemy — will surely use to try to shoot you, to wound or kill.
When the COS hits the radar screen of the MSM, you can expect that these manufacturers of the Kultursmog will step up production such as you've never seen before, pumping out endless supplies of noxious gasses, empty nonsense, into what now passes for the public debate.
So try to deny them entry in the first place. Most people nowadays would regard the "Tenth Amendment Powers" as a term of art entirely disassociated from the idea of "State," let alone states' rights.
So let the MSM explain to the people what "Tenth Amendment Powers" are. That should slow 'em down for a while.
Certainly under that burden, they won't get to George Wallace — a Democrat — anytime soon. :^)
Thank you ever so much for writing, dear Hostage! It's always such a pleasure to hear from you.