I was hoping that there would be enough states/legislatures to call for a Convention of States. That never happened. Now with a more liberal legislature since the mid terms, I believe it would be much too risky and could very easily go the other way.
As for the people tolerating all the corruption in the govt' and what is happening at the border, unfortunately, there are too many bleeding heart liberals who don't believe that we have a problem at the border, nor that our country is in any sort of jeopardy. Denial and apathy seems to continue to be the appetite of the day on this issue.
I don't know if it is the large number of people on meds, whether I am just on the mercurial side, or if people are trained to be so apathetic they can watch all hell break loose before them and remain completely glazed over. I am not wired that way, but I have always been one to express a sense of outrage, even in person, to do something when it needs to be done, even at risk to myself. I can guarantee I would not be quietly marched off to any cooler in the back to be shot like sheep.
Maybe it is a form of normalcy bias that lets people remain disconnected from the mess around them until it is their leg in the trap. Maybe they never developed enough of a weather eye to see a coming storm and know what it heralds. Maybe they are so convinced of their special-ness they don't think the laws of nature or economics apply, or that the lessons of history will make exceptions for them.
When I was working down in Colorado we got plastered by a serious blizzard. Those of us on the drilling rig I was on knew it was coming, laid in groceries and supplies, and hunkered down for 24 hours knowing that we had to shut the rig down because anyone who got hurt was not going to get medical assistance in that storm beyond what we could provide on site.
Not 12 miles away, as the crow flies, a Colorado State Trooper lost his life, hit by a motorist while stopped to help another motorist who was stranded--one of a thousand stranded motorists in the region. Those people should never have been on the road, should never have been stranded, and that Trooper (God Bless him and his family), should be alive today.
Even sheep are more aware of their surroundings than the average human.