That’s no comfort, not anymore. Our population is not like yesterday. There is plenty of risk, no guarantees, and an unknown outcome. If we aren’t revolutionary enough to enforce the blessed Constitution, in a stand alone manner, without risking the whole document, we hardly deserve it anyway.
imho.
What do you suggest? A full blown bloody revolution where the sitting government is overthrown and replaced with strict constitutionalists?
Which Constitution? That's the whole problem.
The federal entity observes the Constitution to the very letter. Unfortunately, it's the Living Constitution, the Constitution of Penumbras and Emanations, the Constitution whose meaning changes even though the words remain the same, the Constitution twisted into a pretzel by two centuries of case law and precedent, that the federal entity observes.
It does not observe the Constitution of Original Intent that Robert Bork called "the Constitution in Exile." It is this issue that 4 states so far wish to remedy. The chances of Congress formulating and passing an amendment that trims federal power are slim and none. Only the states, through the Framers' Article V Convention mechanism, can formulate such an amendment and put the federal entity back in the constitutional prison that Madison designed for it.
If an Article V convention result in a socialist/communist state then that is where the country is now and we need to find out. If that be the case then there is nothing to lose.
The only way the 16th and 17th amendments are going to be repealed is thru Art V. Repealing those two amendments would restore the republic, which is worth the risk. I do not think there is a risk.