What’s killing us today?
Institutionalized corruption, or Politics As Usual.
Simon Johnson, the co-author of 13 Bankers (the book about the day President Obama invited the nation's top bankers to the White House during the financial crises, to let them know they could keep their jobs) recently visited and spoke. He said the country is being denied a national discussion.
I think he's right. We have Politics As Usual plodding forward day in and day out, and we're never allowed a moment to stop and discuss what's actually happening to us.
The convention clause of Article V is what stops Politics As Usual dead in its tracks because it’s a constitutional process which requires special elections for delegates, then the actual deliberative assembly of delegates, and then the national discussion over what’s left on the table by the convention. It’s this process which stops Politics As Usual, while at the same time re-educating the entire nation in one fell swoop about what the Constitution means, and why it was written the way it was.
What we need more than anything today is a national discussion, which is exactly what the Article V Convention is. Whether or not it’s even possible to get 38 states to agree to any one single idea for ratification doesn’t matter as much as the need to stop institutionalized corruption from doing what it’s doing, by talking about what might be done.
Anti-Conventionists have it all wrong, and are in effect arguing against We The People and the Constitution. Anti-Conventionists can be found amongst both liberals and conservatives.