I expect this kind of howling from the left. Unfortunately, I expect it from the IGNORANT right, as well. There is a sort of mind numbed hand-ringing hysteria that arises from the right and the left on this subject which infuriates me.
These sorts of claims are based in nothing but an absolute and total complete ignorance of the process of an article 5 convention coupled with the kind of paranoid hysteria one normally finds only in Q-bots and people claiming that the hospital ships that came into New York City during the covid pandemic were to offload children coming out of giant underground complexes where they had been systematically tortured and had their adrenochrome extracted.
I expect the sort of bawling shrieking idiocy from the left which asserts that anything that threatens to take power away from DC is a horrible sinister force that should be resisted at all costs. I expect that.
I also have a great deal of sympathy for conservatives who don't trust the process of political change and are skeptical about people wishing to use anything to leave her more power to themselves. I get that. I really do. I have sympathy for anyone who smells a rat and wishes to exterminate it (historical allusion there. You get it or you don't).
That said, please, for God's sake, will you just take the time to educate yourself on the process of an article 5 convention? It is not empowered to rewrite the Constitution. It's not empowered to strip out a Second Amendment right (face palming with force and enough vigor to give myself a headache).
An article 5 convention was PUT INTO THE CONSTITUTION. did you get that? Do you really believe its authors put that in there so that it could be subverted? Really?
It was put into the Constitution BY ITS AUTHORS. Did you read that?? One more time. It was put into the Constitution by the authors. It was done so in order to protect the rule of law when Powers have aggregated to DC in order that the Constitutional form of government itself is threatened. Does that sound just a wee bit like what we have now?
It is fashionable among conservatives who don't even bother to look at the process to raise spectres of a runaway convention, stripped out amendments, blah blah blah. I can't tell you how contemptible those arguments are. They really do remind me of dealing with Qbots who will embrace the most idiotic fantasies..., not because they are stupid, but because they are deliberately ignorant. That is, they don't bother to look at the objections that have been raised to an Article V convention (or if they do, confine themselves to a few John Birch remonstrants) and they CERTAINLY don't check with the excellent responses to objections byMichael Farris (one is here) https://www.audible.com/pd/Michael-Farris-at-Article-V-Symposium-Podcast/B0B34N36N5
Farris has gone over, in detail, EVERY objection by Common Cause and New American and demonstrated them to be specious.
If you are refusing to support an article 5 convention because of some bogeyman about them rewriting the Constitution and taking away all of our liberties and blah blah blah blah, you are simply tiresome. No other way to say it. Just ignorant and tiresome.
You are throwing away possibly the only weapon short of an armed Revolution that is left to you in the tool chest to arrest the progress of tyranny. And you are doing so because you are frankly too lazy to look at what is a wonderfully wise prescient and would be effective tool to reverse the course of tyranny in what used to be a republic. So go ahead and hang on to your myth that the Second Amendment will save you if you wish. Or, you can continue to hold on to a dessicated dream about amber waves of grain and a shining city on a hill and the last best hope for freedom while the whole thing collapses around you.
At one time I was for this but now is not the proper time to make any changes.
That is the worst idea EVER! No 2nd amendment rights and free speach will be a thing of the past (It also already is).
There are TWO methods to Amend the Constitution: By vote of Congress or by the votes of the States themselves.
Amendments, not rewrites. First you write the Amendment, then act to approve it, then vote to ratify it (difficult!) before it takes effect.
There are some Amendments that Congress would NEVER vote for. Term limits, for example. Would Congress EVER vote to limit their own terms of office? Or a Balanced Budget Amendment? Or repeal the 17th Amendment and give the Senate back to the States where it belongs?
Congress won’t so we MUST! Start the Article V process by naming an intelligent, wise and cautious chairman and there will be no shenanigans. I propose Mark Levin for chairman.