You are absolutely correct, the arithmetic cuts both ways, although more in favor of conservatives but only moderately so. That means that we are at a stalemate situation as far as Article Vis concerned but that means that the left prevails as long as the situation is static because they control the electoral process, the judiciary, the media etc. If our politics proceed as they have, we will drift ever more to the left, ever deeper in debt, ever weaker abroad, ever more divided at home.
The whole idea ofArticle V is to move the game to a new board where the rules favor conservatives more and that new game will occur in the state legislatures. But to break the deadlock we will need some sort of a "Black Swan" event to energize the electorate and breakthrough the inertia which we unfortunately read on these boards even from conservatives and to overcome leftist minority in state legislatures.
As I said in another post, luck goes to the prepared and we have very good reason to believe that some sort of a reckoning cannot be long delayed. While Nathan Bedford's Maxim, "failed socialism does not result in reform but in more socialism," is often true it is also possible that the country will react in common sense against what has been done to us and actually turn toward conservative reforms.
All we can do is try. If we do not try, what will we tell our kids as they survey the wreckage of their country?
I agree with the severity of the problem. I disagree strongly that there is some sort of political maneuver that can fix it.
In fact, I think the fixed idea conservatives have that such issues are at root a political question is our biggest problem.
A democratic system such as ours is intended to give the people what they want. In the long run, they will get it.
Therefore the BIG issue, by which are others are miniscule, is what the people want. Influencing THAT, in the long run, is what determines where our society is headed.
What people want is simply not affected much by the political process. It is determined culturally, especially in popular culture.
Unfortunately, conservatives have for at least 40 years abandoned the cultural battleground, leaving it to liberals/leftists/progressives. Not surprisingly, if you don’t fight you can’t win.
The political mess we are now in is the result of that 40+ years of not fighting back. That it has taken so long for this mess to evolve is a measure of how strong our cultural capital used to be. But it’s pretty much gone at this point.
To my mind, there simply is no “political” fix at this point. The battle can only be fought and eventually won on the cultural level. As the late, great Breitbart said, “Politics is downstream of culture.”
Unless and until the American people desire to remodel the Constitution in a conservative direction, calling a con-con to do so simply cannot have any positive effects, though it certainly could have negative ones.