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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOne more state goes Red next year they can call constitutional convention and rip apart Constitution
Last week on Thom Hartmann he said next year if the Rs take one more state bringing it to 34, they can have a constitutional convention and rewrite the constitution. Taking out the good parts like peoples welfare and freedom of the press. I asked a local poly sci Professor about this. He kind of poo poo-ed it saying it can happen but has never happened before. I said but we have never had a president Trump before. Doesn't he think that is what the Rs are after.....no answer. I ended by saying We live in Wisconsin, what Walker has done to WI the Rs will now do to the entire country. They don't know this, we do. Local WI media protected Walker. I can only hope the national press media, I cannot count on the television machine to do this, WILL. As you see they are obsessed with Hamilton, and Ivanka hawking her $10Grand bracelet she wore on tv, etc....Trump is tweetering again, so they are following that smokescreen. PAY ATTENTION AMERICANS. We could end up a 3rd world country with a ripped apart Constitution. Damn terrifying.
ellie
(6,929 posts)and have been sick ever since.
malaise
(269,365 posts)Be afraid
get the red out
(13,468 posts)I am terrified.
BamaRefugee
(3,488 posts)Is it if they win governor, Senate, House, what is it exactly that they "take"?
TIA
global1
(25,303 posts)How can we turn some of the Red States back to blue and prevent any additional Blue states from going Red.
We need to start that today and not wait around till next year.
Also - this may have been mentioned on Thom Hartmann's show - but this needs to be communicated to the American People broadly with all the implications and dangers. This all has to happen sooner rather than later - lest we get taken by surprise again like we were a couple of Tuesdays ago.
SickOfTheOnePct
(7,290 posts)They still need 38 to amend the Constitution.
Ace Rothstein
(3,201 posts)CrispyQ
(36,582 posts)Kilgore
(1,733 posts)www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/16/no-republicans-dont-control-enough-states-to-change-the-constitution-but-its-close/