I was not arguing in favor of BAD amendments. I was pointing out that, because it educates the populace, the very process of passing an amendment makes its observance more likely
It would be nice, but the issue with these amendments is how they are worded. Forbidding fed interference is fine, except the Tenth Amendment already says that and the Progressives have ignored it anyway. Nevertheless, writing another amendment forbidding fed interference wouldn't seem to hurt, except that 50 years from now some Progressive majority in SCOTUS could figure out a way to say, "Well, they couldn't have passed the amendment to copy what the 10th Amendment says, so it must mean something else." They do stuff like that all the time.
The real answer here is cutting federal government and taxes to the bone except for our defense which should be streamlined, updated, freed of waste, and made the best on earth again. And force the politicians to do what they are sworn to do: preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution including the 10th Amendment. You force politicians to do this by throwing the bums out if they don't. That's the only language they really understand, Constitutional law and new amendments notwithstanding.
So true. Sure, proponents and amendments will be demagogued by the Left. That is to be expected. Public discussion for instance, over repeal of the 17th Amendment would necessitate a history lesson from our framing era. Why were the states included in the new government in the first place? Why was their participation necessary for ratification? Etc.
The amendment process will open a new world to millions of Americans purposely kept ignorant of our exceptional history, the history of a once FreeRepublic.
The Left has everything to lose, and patriots have everything to gain in an Article V amendment convention.