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Posted on 07/27/2025 8:53:23 AM PDT by Twotone
Amazon Prime making a TV show blasting Convention of States probably wasn’t on your bingo card. But, alas, here we are.
The show is called Shiny Happy People: A Teenage Holy War, and it’s a sensationalized polemic about an evangelical organization that apparently “radicalized” Christian youth, which takes an unexpected turn into “exposing” the COS grassroots who want to “rewrite the Constitution.”
According to the series’ description, “Teen Mania captivated a generation of fervent evangelical Millennial kids with adrenaline-fueled, ecstatic religious experiences through ‘Acquire the Fire’ rallies. But beneath the glittering surface lurked sadistic boot camps, staged martyrdom drills, and fascism disguised as faith - transforming innocent teens into fanatical soldiers, with devastating consequences still unfolding today.”
Don’t fall for the melodrama. The show, which, to be clear, features precious few shiny happy people, basically rehashes the left’s favorite talking points about Christian nationalists, religious fundamentalists, and radical right-wingers forming an “existential threat to democracy” — a line which actually appears in the show.
You see, when leftists educate schoolchildren about their values, it’s called “progress”; when conservatives do the same, it’s called “fascism disguised as faith.” When the former seek to see their values reflected in politics, that’s called democracy; for the latter, it’s called authoritarianism.
As one interviewee says in the show, “Guess what? All the authoritarian people got together, and they’re coming after you.”
It’s right in the middle of this exposé about a supposedly ominous Christian group from the 90s that Convention of States makes its debut Amazon Prime appearance, described in the most sinister terms imaginable.
According to one review of the show, “Basically these fanatics are insecure people who feel threatened by the existence of logical minds. Today, they want to invoke the Convention of States, a method through which they can amend the constitution. That can only be done if two-thirds of the state legislatures apply to Congress, and the extreme right-wing people do believe that they would be able to make that dream into reality.”
“People who threaten to break the democratic fabric of the nation, need to be stopped, and more importantly, need to be told that nobody is above the constitution,” it adds.
The show never really bothers to explain how that relates to Teen Mania. (To the uninitiated, Convention of States aims to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, impose fiscal restraints, and place term limits on federal officials, none of which sound like very “fanatical” or religious goals.) To be clear, the two organizations have nothing to do with each other. The point, however, is abundantly clear: the American people should fear Convention of States.
But who, really, is afraid?
The radical left fears an Article V convention, not because it threatens to enact fascism in America (to the contrary, we seek to forestall tyranny), but because we’re closing in on their power. And they know it. Despite what the show may insinuate about us, we don’t believe in a top-down approach to government; we believe power should be left as close to home as possible. The left, on the other hand, has been consolidating power in Washington for decades, making true self-governance nearly impossible.
Between the sinister description of COS as an organzation that wants to “shred the Bill of Rights [and] the First Amendment” and footage of non-COS activists carrying torches, it’s clear that Amazon is uninterested in contending with the facts about who we are and would rather erect a strawman narrative about “insecure people who feel threatened by the existence of logical minds.”
In reality, it seems the powers that be feel threatened by us. We’re apparently living rent-free in their heads; we’re over the target. That Amazon would use a hot cultural property to attack us tells you just about everything you need to know.
So, which side will you stand on? The side that views traditional conservative values as a fascist threat to democracy? Or the side that seeks to use the Constitution to restore greater power to the American people, regardless of their religious or political backgrounds?
The real threat lies not in the hands of “We the People,” but within the grasp of an elite establishment in a far-distant capital seeking to control our lives. Rest assured, my friends, the second group knows its days are numbered.
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organization of k-12 public education and academia in colleges that apparently “radicalized” America’s youth
with Howard Zinn text books
Is more like it.
People who threaten to break the democratic fabric of the nation, need to be stopped, and more importantly, need to be told that nobody is above the constitution,” it adds.
,1. Article V COS
IS
the constitution
so how can it be above the Constitution freaks , commies and morons ?
2. We are a Republic, not a democracy.
” MUH Democracy” ideology must be broken.
Mob ocracy is why we aren’t a MOBocracy.
These people pushing that sedition are reprobates.
It’s not the original Constitution. There have been 27 Amendments added to the Constitution. The first 10 was the Bill of Rights. Other than that Congress has given itself more power most of the time. It is about time the states take back some of that power through Article V , the Convention of States.
Leery of COS due to runaway convention and the left making things worse!
Hence, given that the observable character of the people now in the political class is somewhere between rotten and despicable, I am not a fan of a COS. The aspirations to power these clowns routinely exhibit give me no hope they would truly rein in the Federal leviathan.
I forced myself to read Howard Zinn’s US history book 15yrs ago. My first thought was “Omg, they’re teaching this crap?”
Article V has never been used because both sides are too afraid the other will get the Lion’s share. They tried to get an Article V Convention to prevent the Civil War but it was too little too late . After a big bloody Democrat-Republican War the Constitution got amended by violence instead. We could skip the upcoming Second Democrat-Republican War by using Article V this time around or eventually get a radioactive wasteland version of America instead.
Because the Left doesn’t do anything like that in our public schools. You know, indoctrinate kids with leftist ideology and engage in activism disguised as “field trips.” Nooo… 🙄
Since anything proposed by the COS would require ratification by three fourths of the states believing anything useful would come from a COS is very wishful thinking. Nothing desired by conservatives would get any blue state votes for ratification.
COS is an idea pursued by democrats and rinos. “Trust but Verify” as President Reagan said.
almost nothing produced in the last decade by any major studio has been anything but rank, woke, leftist propaganda ...
Rinos like Mark Levin and Anthony Scalia?
Yes - at this time the chance of losing existing rights seems much higher than the chance of gaining new ones.
We have a runaway President, and I love it.
COS is an idea pursued by democrats and rinos.
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Utter bullshit.
The founding fathers were neither of those.
I suggest you take the free online Hillsdale college course on the US CONSTITUTION.
It’s the last pull in case of tyrant subversion emergency lever
And the only reason it’s NOT pulled are Democrats and rinos.
The aspirations to power these clowns routinely exhibit give me no hope they would truly rein in the Federal leviathan.
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I understand the cynicism, but a CoS might be a good way to threaten elected officials to DO something before a balanced budget amendment is shoved down their throat. And that seems like the ONLY item that CoS is really intent on doing.
I’d hoped that DOGE would’ve ended up reducing the federal gov’t by a minimum of 25%. Wishful thinking on my part.
And what we got was a 14th Amendment that made hash of the Bill of Rights.
It ended slavery but opened up a new can of worms. People should be able to hire or fire who they want , reasonable or not. That is the point of private property. As an example, you have gays hunting for someone who won't bake their cakes so that they can force their acceptance upon people who rather have nothing to do with them
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