Article V of the constitution may be how the republican party ultimately forces this country to live according to its edicts and beliefs.
That article says: that Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
In other words, it takes 34 states to call for the convention and 38 states to ratify any amendments that are proposed. I think this is the ultimate Republican goal. They can’t win by popular election. Without gerrymandering districts, they might not even win the electoral votes. They’re losers and they know it and hate it. So Article V could be their ticket to banning abortion nationwide (if the ruling of the Texas judge doesn’t do that) banning books and movies deemed politically offensive, banning freedom of speech and the integration of schools, neighborhoods, politics. They would love to take us back to the 1950s when women didn’t work, when Blacks weren’t allowed to vote, when McCarthyism was the political chess game of the day.
Imagine who would be running the country: Kevin McCarthy (channeling Joe McCarthy) loudmouth idiot Marjorie Taylor Greene, book banner and his anti-woke agenda, wannabe dictator Ron DeSantis, narcissist orange man trump, liar Tucker Carlson, nutcase Jim Jordan, failed candidate for Arizona governor, Keri Lake, who is as much of a crazy as Green. Oh then there’s the NRA, in attendance at a secret meeting with DeSantis when he signed his new gun law. Anyone over the age of 18 now can carry a concealed weapon in Florida without a permit, without training, with no criteria at all. You get the idea. We’d be living in The Handmaid’s Tale on steroids with 1984 and The Twilight Zone mixed in.
One thing trump certainly did for the country – he riled up every right wing lunatic from the darkest shadows of the human psyche. He told them it was just fine to come forward, out of those shadows and to fight fight fight for a country that would be great again only when he was president – again.
