Where did I say throw ideals in the trash? Those are your words not mine.
To achieve progress towards ideals requires execution of a plan involving time, energy, action.
You ‘talk’ about ideals.
Article V is the ‘doing’, the constitutionally authorized means of achieving progress towards ideals.
Talking versus doing is what distinguishes opponents from proponents who advocate using Article V as the vehicle to strengthen the role of the Constitution’s design to secure and protect liberty.
Article V is the ‘doing’, the constitutionally authorized means of achieving progress towards ideals.
Nobody here that I have seen has questioned that such means are authorized.
What is at issue is the prudence of it, under the current set of circumstances.
Talking versus doing is what distinguishes opponents from proponents who advocate using Article V as the vehicle to strengthen the role of the Constitution’s design to secure and protect liberty.
The only thing worse than doing nothing is doing the wrong thing.
Your assertion that folks like me are doing nothing is simply false.