As Mark Levin regularly reminds us, reform will not emerge from Washington. If we are to peacefully save what remains of our freedoms and regain what was lost, it is time for the States to call an Article V Constitutional Convention. If Congress does not head it off on its own to consider a single amendment, repeal of the 17th, we have little to lose. Our consolidated government ignores our unalienable rights, separation of powers and is arming itself to put down mass confrontation. If Congress ignores the threat and the States convene a convention, we risk no more than where we are already headed, a consolidated government of unlimited powers bent on creating a perfect social justice Utopian hell.
We have the means to save our society and lives; means that were not available in 1775. Let’s use them. Together, with the help of God, we just might save these United States.
It's a win-win for the MarxoFascists - if we do not take the bait, they erect the machinations of tyranny that will be impervious to dismantlement, if we resist - we become enemies of the state, terrorists the Ruling Class will say is justified for extermination.
Your suggestion is a noble idea, and if this people were a moral and upright people as generations before us were, such an effort would have a good chance of success.
We are no longer a moral or upright people, especially among those ruling us and those beholden to them.
A con-con will be hijacked by agents of the Ruling Class, and what you intended would become a weapon against us all and the entire Constitution itself 'legally' rewritten to suit the MarxoFascists.
This regime and the Ruling Class in power are no longer bound by the Rule of Law, the Constitution or the Will of the People. They have repeatedly defied us, ridiculed us and did what they intended to do despite protests. We're dealing with evil and corruption on a scale I do not think you comprehend.
If they will not respect the rule of law as written NOW, what makes you think they are going to abide the repeal of the 17th?? You think for one second that this regime, the entire political ruling class and their dependents are just going to surrender their usurped power without engendering a bloody fight?
No my friend, history teaches that such men in power have no fear of law when they have manipulated it to their advantage. Nor do they have fear of any new law that upholds the rights of the people. That too will be ignored, marginalized or demonized to ineffectiveness. The only safeguard against such power of ambition is the fear of force being used against them, and the will to execute such force.
Aside from all that - why should God help us preserve what is left of the Republic when we sat on our hands while the Secular Hedonists threw Him out of our culture? Why should God help a nation that practices infanticide and murdered an entire generation of Americans in the womb because our current definition of liberty is to do whatever we feel like doing? Why should God help a nation that is granting homosexuality an elevated status in society?
I'm not trying to be defeatist here - but realistic. Of course we should make attempts to 'appeal' to our rulers, same as our Founders did. But there comes a time when reality must be accepted and a futile course of appeasement and petition of those who are unfit to rule a free people, requires the means and will to resist them by the only thing tyrants respect.
If what you desire as a course of action were to have any viability whatsoever, begin first by getting this people to do a II Chronicles 7:14. Shy of that - I'm afraid John Adams' statement about liberty being lost forever, will prove not only to be prophetic, but an indictment of our failure.
"But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever. When the People once surrender their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them, they can never regain it…" - John Adams