The majority of state legislatures are republican controlled. Chances are that progessives wouldn’t get much traction and I am not as afraid of libertarians as you seem to be. But perhaps we should just stay with the status quo and let the current government destroy the country without trying anything new. Remember the definition of insanity!
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First, thank you for the education on an Article V convention: I stand corrected.
However, I for one am not convinced that our troubles today stem with flaws or deficiencies in our Constitution, so much as in the caliber of individuals being elected to office. The Article V idea seems more like a clever “work-around” to our true problem of an inert, disinterested, uneducated, immoral, and unengaged electorate that habitually places corrupt and immoral people in office. Here in San Antonio, our very Liberal mayor was elected with about six or seven of the electorate turning out. Unreal. Would passing new amendments make people get off their derrieres and vote? Somehow I doubt it.
Moreover, the current regime in Washington has made it clear that it will do whatever it pleases, regardless of what the law and/or Constitution says. As long as our elected leaders are lawless, an Article V convention will be of little import.
We know where Ted Cruz stands on virtually every issue. The same is true of most Democrats. The moral vacuum on the “Republican” side is in dire need of being filled. We do not know where many of them stand from issue to issue, because they can apparently be bought and sold.
With regard to Libertarians, I do view them with a great deal of precaution and circumspection.
One of the ideas being kicked around is a proposed amendment that would make it an impeachable offense for any legislator to vote on any piece of legislation that has not first passed constitutional muster.
Another is lifetime term limits. If these guys know that after two terms in the senate that they must go back out into the real world with the rest of us and live under the laws that they pass, maybe they'll be a little more circumspect.
Maybe.