Posted on 12/26/2021 2:46:36 PM PST by Jacquerie
Article V opponents and some proponents view the Article V COS movement through the lens of our national political parties. The time is long past to dislodge oneself from this paradigm. To remain in this mindset is unhelpful at best, and destructive at worst, because the two national parties are one Uniparty incapable of reforming the racket that serves its members so well.
Professor Angelo M. Codevilla coined the term, “Uniparty” in 2013. His explosive article nudged many conservatives to accept what they long suspected, that among the top echelons of the two parties there is little difference between their public policy goals. What joins the GOP and Democrat parties overwhelms their minor differences. Instead of public cage-fights over strongly held principles, what we see has more in common with professional wrestling; the contest is rigged, and rigged in the Democrat’s favor. As junior members of the Uniparty, the GOP often suffers barbs from media and harassment from conservatives, yet its members are still paid very well in salary, wealth and prestige, just like the democrats. Why change?
As Codevilla wrote: “The Uniparty, the party of government, the party of Ins, continues to consist of the same people. The Outs are always the same people too: American conservatives.” Recent events brought Codevilla’s theory into focus, as the Uniparty establishment fights tooth and nail, not only in opposition to President Trump’s reforms, but openly toward his early removal from office, by any means necessary.
There is a broader historical concept that wraps around Professor Codevilla’s Uniparty, which Article V supporters should use to their advantage. From roughly 1720 to 1740, Viscount Henry St. John Bolingbroke (1678-1751) publicized the need for a Country Party to rescue Great Britain from the Court Party. Bolingbroke’s Country Party framed a movement rather than an organized party and had no formal structure or leaders. It was a nonpartisan force fighting for the national interest – the whole country – against the self-interested actions of the Court Party, that is the politicians in power in London. Like Tea Partiers and COS supporters today, 18th century English Country men watched the Court party corrupt the government through patronage to buy support, and threaten English and Scottish liberties.
To Bolingbroke, the Country Party represented the voice of the nation, the common interest of all. Like James Madison, Bolingbroke regarded parties as collections of men driven toward private interests rather than the common good. From this sense, Bolingbroke wrote, “A Party, thus constituted, is improperly called a Party; it is the Nation, speaking and acting (on its behalf). It will prevail in all struggles sooner or later, as long as our Constitution subsists (my italics).”
As applied to our Constitution, I found the italicized words to be chilling. Where the British constitution is whatever Parliament determines it to be, the American Constitution is a positive, enumerated grant of specific powers from the demos, We the People. Yet, the Uniparty conducts itself as if, like parliament, the US didn’t have a written Constitution.
Codevilla and Bolingbroke intersect in their solutions to Uniparty/Court Party oppression; both advised their nations to fight the Uniparty/Court Party on its own turf, that is, in congress and parliament. As military and political historians know, attackers rarely prevail in battle on the defender’s place and terms.
In Great Britain, where the first and last recourse of the Country Party is limited to attacking the Court Party ramparts in parliament, We the People, the Country Party of the United States can outflank the Court Party. Through an Article V COS, we needn’t waste resources in a hopeless campaign, as Codevilla promotes, to break up the Court Party. This isn’t to say we shouldn’t support President Trump’s efforts to drain the DC swamp, but realize that he alone cannot restore free government. Nor will relief be found by sending presumably better people to congress.
The Article V COS movement, the Country Party, stands above the collection of factions comprising the Uniparty/Court Party. Just watch any YouTube, or read any transcript of common citizens testifying before state legislative committees on behalf of Article V. Their uplifting and noble appeals to the general welfare of the nation pluck the patriotic strings in every American’s heart.
Legislators in twelve states climbed out of the factional box of political partisanship and passed the Article V COS Resolution. If, like me, you are a current events junkie, and live in one of the thirty-eight remaining states, consider paying more attention to state matters. The online resources available today make it easy to keep track of the goings-on in your state. Have you contacted your state legislator and senator regarding Article V? They will appreciate hearing from someone with the greater good in mind, someone not asking for a self-serving favor.
I felt a deep sense of relief and liberation when I cast off the chains of party. Sure, I still pay attention to current events, but it’s from the standpoint of entertainment, of watching a sport as honest as professional wrestling. Since it is pointless, I no longer stress out at the lunatic ravings of some Democrats, nor do I shout at cowardly Republicans. I direct my efforts where they carry the promise of real reform, and the possibility of once again living under free government.
Article V ping!
Who do you think is going to implement the new constitution under Article V? This same uniparty that’s in power?
Implement this: “The 17th Amendment is hereby repealed.”
We should use Article V for just one amendment, to show the “End Of The World!!!”ers disaster won’t happen.
The Amendment? Term Limits for Congress, o f course. For years, polls consistently show 80% approval, across all boundaries. R’s, D’s, black, white, etc. It has overwhelming support, and will sail through Ratification.
Then go for more controversial amendments after. But start with a single one, that they can win.
By coincidence I just read Cordvilla’s essay on the Beltway bandits. Rush had read it in full in 2010 so I wanted to read it for myself. As George Carlin once said , it’s a big party and you are not in it. Ruin it for them with Article V!
Heck, even if a COS met, couldn’t agree, and everyone went home would be a win that showed the “runaway” fears were nonsense.
<>it’s a big party and you are not in it<>
I’d forgotten that. Thanks.
We now have a new variation of this aristocracy arising in Democracies. Which is why rather than recovering to them as 'elites' we should refer to them as 'The Interbreeds' since that is where their kind of thinking leads to and is anything but complimentary.
Well, people like Mark Levin have thrown around the term, “oligarchy,” the corrupted form of aristocracy.
Whatever we call it, the Senior Executive Service is without a doubt a caste of its own and along with lesser members of the Deep State, don’t give a rip what is best for our nation.
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