Well over half of the states opposed both Obamacare and his illegal amnesty in court. I'm aware of two states taking steps to counter the effect the fag marriage Scotus decision. State legislatures are coming to realize they have the power to arrest and reverse the trend.
I suspect most Article V opponents emotionally refuse to believe that America is not exempt from historic cycles of freedom to slavery, of the sort Aristotle described unless we actively work to stop the process. They believe we can find deliverance if we only elect the right person for president. Our history has proved them to be fools.
Article V opponents equate a state amendment convention with our corrupted congress, a congress in which our freedoms and rights are easily traded away today for money, media support, and reelection tomorrow.
They are wrong. Article V opponents are stuck in static analysis.
Men are shaped by the institutions in which they participate. The congressman who would sell our rights today would never think of harming his family. Michele Bachmann was run out of congress for being virtuous in a corrupt institution. Had she joined the sleaze and venality that typifies congress, she could be there today. What I describe is identical to the behavioral difference between men in strip clubs and church.
The states will send serious men/women of character and judgment armed with commissions to promote their state supported amendments. Delegates to an amendment convention will be unconcerned with that which drives congress: money, personal power, and reelection will not be their focus or interest.
We can have every expectation that state delegates will rise to the occasion. They will understand the gravity of their assignment and conduct themselves in a manner precisely opposite that of congress.
Sorry, but I believe that's magical thinking. I've observed the same venality in state legislations as in the congress.
Americans, nowadays, seem not to be familiar with Aristotle, or Plato — though these two men essentially founded what we today call "political science." Left progressive educrats out of the federal DoE seem hell-bent on grinding out pupils who are encouraged to think the world started the day they were born: They have zero knowledge of the deep human past.
But to have that knowledge is profoundly liberating in so many ways.
Thank you ever so much, Jacquerie, for your splendid essay/post!