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Dear Mr. Bachert,

There seem to be a number of posters on this subject who fall into one or more of the following categories:

The willfully ignorant
The terminally indolent
The woefully indifferent
The pathologically negative

Let’s go one by one: You repeatedly refer to a Constitutional Convention. Please hear me on this, one and all: There is NO, repeat NO Constitutional provision endorsing or providing for a Constitutional Convention of any sort, nor is one under discussion here. Your insistent use of the term “Con-Con” reveals your willful ignorance.

Your reference to the complacency and inattentiveness of others is sadly reflective of your own complacency and inattentiveness, and reveals your terminal indolence. While you cavil about the abuses of government, it has fallen to me and my like-minded brothers and sisters (Georges and Georgettes) to actually DO something about it. Please enjoy your armchair while you can.

Your equation of the present effort with something that occurred during the Carter years (and IIRC there was an actual proposal for a Constitutional Convention floating around back then) is stunningly disingenuous, and reveals your woeful indifference, in this case an indifference to the truth.

Finally, I note that you argue that the present effort’s chance of success lies somewhere between slim and none, as if the success of a venture must be determined before the process is engaged. That attitude reveals your pathological negativity.

It is obvious to me from the number of people making posts such as yours that many people are suffering from one or more of the maladies mentioned. I chalk that up to years of living under the statist yoke. I hope that these folks will be encouraged by the coming debate and process - maybe even you.

On the other hand these posts could be plants by DU types terrified that true Americans might just actually succeed in taking the country back, and are trying to spread FUD.

I’m not sure which you are.