Your view is all well and good, but how do you propose to control a convention of certain differing goals, aims, subterfuge, scheming and lord knows what when we can't even control the election process in this country now? For the last three or four elections, probably more. Even our own GOP(e) is against us.
I am not against the idea of it; I just do not trust it can be successfully implemented, and I think the disastrous potentials are something that should be very, very carefully considered.
I most certainly dislike the glib assurances I've been getting from proponents with an air of “holier than thou - we gotta do something, even if it's wrong” attitudes because we are currently living under a tyrant.
Like I posted earlier, in order to control it the first thing is to go into executive session and keep deliberations secret. Second is to follow proper parliamentary procedure. Third is to ensure that the delegates are qualified leaders and statesmen from their states, and not union goons and thugs.
These are all things that the convention of 1787 did.
-PJ