I haven’t forgotten our project at all. But the omnibus budget bill just passed puts the whole republic at grave risk, so much so that if we do not get a strong tough leader like Donald Trump into the White House, efforts to structurally balance the powers between state and federal governments will not matter.
I know full well that although a leader such as President Trump will stop the madness that is going on now, it won’t last once he’s gone unless the Convention of States rises up to counter the overwrought power and corruption that has taken hold inside the Beltway. And as you allude to, the evolution of this concentrated corruption is a direct result of the effect of the 17th Amendment.
As Trump says in regards to wars in the Middle East, we can’t fight everybody at once, we have to take out the enemies we can take out first and then follow through on taking out the remainder. So we start with Trump and continue in orderly fashion with our Convention of States project. If we do not have a President Trump to restrain the Oligarchy, then our COS is buried and lost.
The goal is to reform the Constitution so that a sufficient number of state capitols can counter Washington DC’s encroachment on the freedoms and liberties of Americans. But as mentioned, the idea of state pushback may not even be possible in the next year unless an extraordinarily strong leader is able to rein in the corruption and unmitigated power. For otherwise, a very real domestic war will ensue and our project will be viewed as part of an insurrection. We will not be able to speak freely.
Rush Limbaugh calling to disband the Republican Party is a huge red flag of the emergency we are in. We can continue and even step up a COS but we may have to do so in secret, as much as possible must be kept out of view.
I agree with everything you say but, at this point, I just don’t believe the U.S. can be saved from the uber liberalism that has taken hold in places like California and New York.
These states have existing government buildings, existing elected officials and existing citizens who love to pay taxes and take home less than half their paycheck. Meaning, like the roots of a mighty oak tree, they (Liberal’s) are deeply entrenched. Conservatives have let it all happen right before their eyes over the last half century. Every now and then a lone fighter like Cruz or Sessions raises his head.
No, give them a state job doing nothing, a dog on a leash and a public park nearby; and a bike stand in front of their high rise 300 square foot apartment, and some dope, and a planned parenthood office down the block, and they are just going to be good little democrats. The USA lasted about 250 years. Not bad I guess!
We'll certainly be better off under a benevolent despot like Trump than under the Hildebeast, yet the die has been cast; congress is just about irrelevant to the law, and the executive branch is limited only by what it thinks it can politically get away with.
I still hold out hope that at some point, Cruz will take the national debate to a higher level, and inform the American people why the government must be reformed by them through their states via Article V.