Timing

Article V shouldn’t be that big a deal.  The Framers certainly didn’t feel it would be limited to extraordinary situations.  But, for a variety of reasons, it’s never been used, and is treated as some sort of Constitutional quirk.  The Framers may not have realized that over time they would come to be revered as a collection of brilliant and patriotic men whose like we will never see again.  People look at today’s politicians and don’t want to let them near the sacred text of the Constitution.

So Article V will be used only when there’s no other choice.  I know some history.  I know Mark Twain said 130 years ago that America had no native criminal class, except for Congress.  I know that Congress has been even more corrupt than it is today.  But in 2014 we have a perfect storm — a thoroughly corrupt Congress, a President at once comically inept and imperial, a spiraling debt that threatens us with national insolvency, and an enormous Federal Leviathan that pushes farther and farther into our lives.

So — time for Article V.

The topic is timely because it appears in 2015 and 2016 — the period in which we’ll be fighting to get to 34 — things won’t be getting any better.  God knows what the R’s will do when Obama grants executive amnesty to 5 million illegals, but it won’t be pretty.  He’ll get away with it, but the R’s will revenge themselves.  Their base will be crying for blood.  We could be looking at two years of trench warfare in Washington, the area between the White House and the Capitol a no man’s land.

This is all good, from my perspective.  Article V can save this country.  But only if people are driven to it.

The epitaph of Sulla Felix 152-78 B. C.

No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.