https://www.commoncause.org/resource/u-s-constitution-threatened-as-article-v-convention-movement-nears-success/ I signed the petition here is snow flake land, It hasn't gained much steam, at last glimpse.. Now I am heading out of the rat ifested liberal hole, 500 miles, I vote with my feet.. because I can.. changing IP addresses again Du64, what name should I come back under.. looking at Dick Guzinya
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@tobias9122 saidEr...
https://www.commoncause.org/resource/u-s-constitution-threatened-as-article-v-convention-movement-nears-success/ I signed the petition here is snow flake land, It hasn't gained much steam, at last glimpse.. Now I am heading out of the rat ifested liberal hole, 500 miles, I vote with my feet.. because I can.. changing IP addresses again Du64, what name should I come back under.. looking at Dick Guzinya
wha???
That's not even grammatical, let alone sensible enough to be stupid.
@shallow-blue saidAll you need to understand is that if the Republicans get their way and there is an Article V Convention to re-write the Constitution, the US Constitution, as we know it, is done. It won't be worth the paper it's printed on. It will fundamentally change from a tool of Democracy, to a tool of Fascism.
Er...
wha???
That's not even grammatical, let alone sensible enough to be stupid.
@suzianne saidAn Article V convention can only propose amendments; they'd still have to be ratified by 3/4 of the State legislatures or State conventions. The crackpot ideas being tossed around in the Article V movement have essentially zero chance of ever polluting the Constitution.
All you need to understand is that if the Republicans get their way and there is an Article V Convention to re-write the Constitution, the US Constitution, as we know it, is done. It won't be worth the paper it's printed on. It will fundamentally change from a tool of Democracy, to a tool of Fascism.
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@suzianne saidit is the liberals trying to change the constitution dumbass! read the article!
All you need to understand is that if the Republicans get their way and there is an Article V Convention to re-write the Constitution, the US Constitution, as we know it, is done. It won't be worth the paper it's printed on. It will fundamentally change from a tool of Democracy, to a tool of Fascism.
Democrats have lost power with no hope of gaining it back for decades. Trump has placed hundreds of fed judges and appointed two SCOTUS’s. Ginsburg will make the third.
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@no1marauder saidIndeed, crackpot ideas like a balanced budget amendment and term limits for career politicians.
An Article V convention can only propose amendments; they'd still have to be ratified by 3/4 of the State legislatures or State conventions. The crackpot ideas being tossed around in the Article V movement have essentially zero chance of ever polluting the Constitution.
Crazy stuff about 80% of Americans agree with.
We all crazy folk.
How are you suppose to have free everything with a balanced budget amendment? It would be a death blow to Progressivism.
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@whodey saidIt would be a death blow to the US economy to have no way for the government to set fiscal policy appropriate to economic conditions in the country.
Indeed, crackpot ideas like a balanced budget amendment and term limits for career politicians.
Crazy stuff about 80% of Americans agree with.
We all crazy folk.
How are you suppose to have free everything with a balanced budget amendment? It would be a death blow to Progressivism.
No one is stopping the Trump administration from presenting a balanced budget. No one was stopping the Republican House from doing so from 2011-18. No one is stopping Moscow Mitch and his cronies from doing so now.
Almost every idea from Progressives like Bernie Sanders comes with proposals to fully fund them, so your claims are typical right wing BS.
@mott-the-hoople saidAlmost all of the Article V talk for the past 10+ years has been from Republicans.
it is the liberals trying to change the constitution dumbass! read the article!
Democrats have lost power with no hope of gaining it back for decades. Trump has placed hundreds of fed judges and appointed two SCOTUS’s. Ginsburg will make the third.
Dumbass.
Democrats don't have a chance of doing it, even if they wanted, since most state governors are Republicans.
Whodey's been saying it here for years now that it's the Republicans' only hope.
@whodey saidYou too, fool.
Indeed, crackpot ideas like a balanced budget amendment and term limits for career politicians.
Crazy stuff about 80% of Americans agree with.
We all crazy folk.
How are you suppose to have free everything with a balanced budget amendment? It would be a death blow to Progressivism.
Balanced budget amendments and term limits have always been liberal ideas.
"Crazy stuff about 80% of Americans agree with."
It's about time you said something here other than your more usual BS.
@tobias9122 said“ what name should I come back under.. looking at Dick Guzinya”
https://www.commoncause.org/resource/u-s-constitution-threatened-as-article-v-convention-movement-nears-success/ I signed the petition here is snow flake land, It hasn't gained much steam, at last glimpse.. Now I am heading out of the rat ifested liberal hole, 500 miles, I vote with my feet.. because I can.. changing IP addresses again Du64, what name should I come back under.. looking at Dick Guzinya
Well that’s one way of getting people on first name terms with your avatar.
@suzianne saidHardly. Both are undemocratic ideas and the Left has traditionally supported mass democracy while the Right has always favored measures that reduce or even eliminate democratic features of a political system (the term Right and Left come from the seating in the post-revolution French Parliament; the monarchists were on the right; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_politics).
You too, fool.
Balanced budget amendments and term limits have always been liberal ideas.
"Crazy stuff about 80% of Americans agree with."
It's about time you said something here other than your more usual BS.