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!
The Convention of States project is using Article V of the US Constitution to organize state legislators to amend the Constitution. And it has made and continues to make good progress.
Under Article V, California and New York don’t matter because states small in population have equal power to the big states. For example, New York’s vote is equal to North Dakota’s, California’s vote is equal to Utah’s and so on. That is because it doesn’t matter what the population numbers are for any particular state because each state gets an equal power under Article V.
Note that 38 states are needed to ratify an amendment to the Constitution. Note that there are 12 states that are blue and 38 states that are red in term of their state legislatures. Note that republicans control 66 of 99 state legislative chambers (Nebraska has only one chamber). Note that it is up to state legislatures to vote under Article V, not the voters.