"We have nothing to fear, but Fear itself," - FDR
Article 5, in the constitution, was written by wise men who wrote a document that was written to fix a broken, totally non functional government that the rest of the world laughed at because it was a pile of shit. That government was called "The Articles of Confederation" and it could not do anything. With the POSSIBLE exception of Switzerland prior to 1850, no confederation in the history of mankind has done jack or shit; not the American South, not the Athenian League, not the EU; confederations DO. NOT. WORK.
The Founding Fathers knew this. And they realized that we would likely fuck things up eventually. Hell, Jefferson felt that we should have a new constitution every 20 years. And we should but instead Jefferson did his job too well and we have a constitution that won't go away even if it needs to.
In THIS post, I'm not arguing about the constitution itself but the simple understanding that a house divided cannot stand. We have two realities, and a recent conversation with an inhabitant of that reality made me remember; no one views themselves as a mustache twirling villain. The nazis, to themselves, were holy warriors fighting for racial purity. The romans enslaved but brought roads and civilization. The british brought order and tea and democracy. America brings McDonalds.
To a Trump supporter; these are not concentration camps for kids but Freedom Cages for the kids of criminals. To a Trump supporter, they aren't traitors collaborating with Russia but Good Citizens who have a good ally and friend in Uncle Putin (and they aren't even working with him anyway). To a Trump supporter, Trump may be crass and anti woman, but at least he doesn't murder babies.
They don't view themselves as monsters. They view themselves as good guys and us as badguys who hate America, hate them, hate kids, hate babies, hate dogs, hate ourselves, hate the truth, hate kittens. WE, the inhabitants of reality, are the real villains and are cartoon characters in their minds; frightened children who need the Gubbamint to solve our problems and are; effectively, zombies in the servants of Soros and the Clintons. Why do you think these people obsesses about the zombie apocalypse? That isn't real zombies they are preparing for but the day when their Leader says it is OK to go out and mow down the evil; rather, "the evil is mowing us down, defend yourselves with extreme prejudice and their kids too just in case." Seriously, these people look at the Republic of Gillean and nod, "We have to do it for God."
You can't reason with that. You can't appease it. You can't even legislate your way around it. It is never, EVER, going to get better and you can't educate around it because their reality filters will listen to what you say and put you in the "Not Human" box and move on.
So, its either civil war or....
An article 5 convention.
We can agree to split ways; let them have their little reality where they put kids in cages and make women use wire coat hangers in alleys and keep black men from marrying white women and gay marriage is illegal. We can do that, and keep ourselves and our cities safe.
You can argue that its horrible to let them do these things but are you prepared to sling a rifle on your back and walk through radioactive mud and live off MRE's for 10 years to make it happen? I bet you are not. I'm sorry but you just aren't.
So if we aren't REALLY wanting to fight the 2nd Civil War; and we don't want the Republic of Gillead, we have to give these people their pound of flesh. We have to let them raise their taxes for the rich and let corporations rule them. We have to let them let their sick racist fantasies become real and separate the country between Red and Blue america and the only real way to do it (without war) is an Article 5 convention.
You can put your fingers in your ears and keep saying "lalalalalalalala" or you can try and find a way besides war. A real soldier avoids war at all costs. Anyone with a shred of wisdom listens to the horrors of others; while I may be no soldier, I listen to them. War is horrible; war is awful and war is what we are going to get if we don't split the country.
But do what you want.
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