And that was accomplished in the 1930s, eighty years before ACORN / Soros political manipulation.
A similar route to ratification would be taken today, in desperate times, following an ACORN / Soros Con-Con.
The leftist MSM would be 100% behind it, and the ‘Rat Congress gets to design the rules.
The states make the final ratification. Since we now have a majority of "Red" states, odds would be in favor of the people getting real constraints on government spending through use of some simple adjustment (i.e. repeal the 16th).
In a real asylum, people who attack others for no reason are common.