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.
Who in the states makes the final determination? The Congress gets to make the rules. I can see bogus “state ratifying conventions” taking place in a Hugo Chavez type environment, in downtown civic centers, with “security” provided by SEIU, and the delegates from ACORN, blessed by the leftist MSM.
Any conservatives who tried to show up would get an SEIU beat down.
Would it work? On one level, yes. On another level no, because such a bogus con-con and ratifying conventions would precipitate CW2.
The legislators and governors.