"Liberals" adamantly reject the idea that the federal government is a creature subservient to the states, but there is a way in which the states could assert ultimate control. All it takes is a simple majority in 3/4 (38) of the states to pass an amendment to the Constitution - and it only takes (a simple majority in) 2/3 (34) of the states to call a constitutional convention. The mere act of calling a convention would be a shot across the bow of "liberal" politics; actually passing an amendment could set "liberalism" back 100 years.The states could, for instance, constitutionally fix the number for the justices of SCOTUS (which is currently subject to a mere act of Congress). Fixing that number at its current value of 9 should be utterly unexceptionable, and therefore should be easy to pass.
Add to that a separate amendment which automatically added one justice every to SCOTUS every four years, provided that the winning POTUS had nominated said justice before winning election and provided that the states make room on the nine-member court by voting an existing member of SCOTUS "off the island." That would have to be done by a quadrennial convention of the states, but the key would be to do it by the state governments, rather than by the people of the states (as senators are now elected). That would be good in principle, because the Senate no longer represents the state governments, but the people of the states. By passing that amendment, the states would take upon themselves the oversight of SCOTUS - and thus, we can hope, enforce the Ninth and Tenth Amendments against Congress and the President.
If 38 states were really serious about it, they could pass an amendment naming names of the justices of SCOTUS - thereby directly asserting control over the composition of SCOTUS.
Thank you for your positive response. This is what I am talking about. FIND a means. Think, Think, Think about the facts, and manipulate them a thousand ways on paper until we have a road map. Make positive steps towards achieving our goals.
Most of what the Left is doing over the years has involved bluff. Now they have Bluffed their way, bought their way, into control, but it isn’t over yet.
As I said in another post to another poster on this thread we have to have a bigger, more powerful bulldozer than the one they have.
There’s been too much hand wringing, and “I/we can’ting” going on around here. Those changes that were made by Leftists since Wilson’s time primarily can be turned around, and shoved up...never mind.
Arizona can create a stand off too. Make the Left expose themselves so openly that even the bought and paid for Leftist MSM cannot cover for them anymore.
We must think of simple means as well as more difficult strategies, as well outrageous acts if necessary to get the attention to politics of the daily doers that tune out their responsibility not only to their country, but themselves as well. They will later thank those that yanked their leash.
end rant.