I'm not a fan of change for change sake. Especially if we don't know what we want to change.
I can only think of a couple of things that a convention might help with. But it's very doubtful that they would.
If our elected Congressmen aren't acting on our behalf, what makes us think, that a bunch of State appointees are going to do a better job. Or. that any of the current mob would do better than our Founding Fathers.
The things that need to change:
- Voting integrity. Maybe a convention could put Voter ID and better election operational controls and routine full process elction auditing in place. But your just as likely to end up with Motor Voter and Mail in Voting and restrictions on voter verification.
- I'd like to see Congress restricted from owning any foreign financial assets. That's something that Congress will never put in place, so a convention would be the right place to mandate that.
- And maybe a portion of their income restructured as a bonus based on how mean real income has performed. That could make them think twice about massive immigration and offshoring jobs.
- The FISA court needs an independent civil rights team advocating on behalf of citizens. A challenge to what the FBI was presenting might have prevented some of the recent horrid partisan prosecutions and investigations. But Congress and the President should be able to do that without needing a convention.
- I'd like to see our citizens educated on American History, American government, the bill of rights, and some basic economics, and how to evaluate candidates. But I don't see how a convention would even start to address that.
- I'd like to see the media split up and foreign ownership of American media banned.
- And I'd like to see something done about high tech political censorship.
But Congress not a convention is the right place to address most of this.