Got it. You're afraid of your countrymen and believe all hope is lost. Even if that's the case, it's no argument for giving up. Many of the rest of us have more faith in our fellows to do the right thing when forced to make a decision.
Are you kidding me?
The current state of our culture, the corruption in government and the wholesale ignorance of our history and heritage being displayed daily indicts your assessment. Outside of an increasingly shrinking group of Americans, I have absolutely no faith in the larger populace of this land to make decisions that will benefit liberty. You and I could write a book on the abject wholesale ignorance of this people about anything outside of what TMZ and Youtube or Facebook might tell them about celebrities. I read and hear that fact every single day. By people whom I would not expect to hear idiocy and ignorance from. The fact Hillary almost 'won' the election ought to scream that truth to you. The fact Bernie Sanders has the following and popularity he does ought to make that clear. The fact those who claim to be on our side are now parroting the need for Government healthcare, bigger government and more entitlement programs - ought to declare in neon lights the fact that this people are not interested in making correct decisions that benefit the kind of liberty intended for us.
As Levin has correctly stated last year - we are no longer a Constitutional Republic in form and function. We have devolved into a Socialist Democracy.
Look, we can close your eyes and pretend the decay, depravity, debt and decline is not happening but that does not change the reality of where we have arrived.
I do not put faith in people who put no faith in Him who blessed the country to begin with. If you are going to ignore the warnings of the Founders as I paraphrased above, who paraphrased the warnings from history and the bible in favor of blind optimism then I must interpret your assessment as a form of Normalcy Bias.
And I did not say to abandon or give up the attempts to do an Article V convention to propose Amendments. I think that is a necessary step in order to showcase the cause that every attempt to deal with Statist tyranny was attempted and failed via corruption, subterfuge and sabotage. I'm warning against the false hope that somehow starting that process is going to save us.
It's not.
More than half the population does not want a limited government. Government has replaced Providence and Religion as the place a people turn to for aid and hope. They now turn to government and the courts. They want a bigger, more provisional and intrusive government - precisely because they do not trust you with liberty and despise that you have it. And I am not just talking about the usual suspects on the Left. Your average Joe Sixpack thinks government should be there to provide, make things fair and even the playing fields. That is not an atmosphere liberty can exist for long.
As I said, we are no longer a people capable of freedom. You can refer to the quotes and lectures from Adams, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, Henry and a host of other Founders who repeatedly warned that the kind of liberty they fought to preserve could only be maintained by a religious and moral people. We are no longer a religious or moral people and the self-evident fact of that state is our depraved and wicked culture and the amount of corruption now intransigent in nearly all our institutions.
II Chronicles 7:14 was the place to actually begin the push for an Article V convention, but - that is not going to happen, because the bulk of the churches and synagogues in this nation themselves are not interested in even suggesting that course of action.
The root cause of the entire need for an Article V convention is spiritual, not political. But so long as politics are the only course of action anyone is looking at - the cancer that eats a society's fundamental core foundations will continue to metastasize and all the bandaids we try to put on it are not going to save the patient.
