Reply #11: Likely, a constitutional convention would lead to the US dissolving like the Soviet Union did. [View All]

[Selatius]

Because conservatives would not want the US Senate to be touched. Think about it. The Senate was originally proposed to balance out the views of small states with larger more populous states. This is why Georgia gets two seats to California's two seats even though California is far larger in terms of population.

Another hang-up would be over which changes will be implemented.

I can think of several that would automatically be opposed by corporatist/conservative elements:

1. Implementation of publicly financed elections at the federal level
2. Implementation of majority voting with a run-off mechanism
3. Implementation of ability to recall sitting legislators/presidents

There are others, such as abolition of the Electoral College. I'm in favor of many proposals to make our country more democratic, but at the same time, the nut jobs on the right wing will also have a seat at the table.

In such a situation, I think the best solution would be to end "the American Experiment" once and for all, rather than risk letting the totalitarian elements force through some of their changes at the expense of some of our changes in the interests of "compromise."

The fear is the corporate elements would game the system by getting state legislatures to send pro-corporate delegates to the convention to write draft amendments, and then they would get their stooges in the several state legislatures to vote to approve these pro-corporate measures. They control plenty of state houses already. In such a situation, I'd vote to leave the Union.