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In reply to the discussion: This is going to get a lot of blow back, but it needs to be said! [View all]plimsoll
(1,668 posts)It would strongly favor Alec, the Koch's and the Mercers. They want a rewrite, it's what puts the lie to the notion that they are "conservatives." They want to destroy the current order, not fix the problems within it. So any constitutional convention run today would come out with an electoral college weighted to favor easily dominated states, a unitary executive with enormous power, and a shadow legislative body. I think a supreme court would be irrelevant because the executive would make the choices and remove the members they dislike if they ever appeared.
What everyone fails to remember is that at least in theory our process is supposed to provide that choice of input over a larger group of candidates. As less popular ones drop out their supporters gravitate to people who better represent their views. Eventually we're supposed to have a compromise candidate, the one who makes the largest number of people the least unhappy. So our elections have always been a choice of the lesser of two evils. It's time for Americans to grow up and recognize the system for how it actually works instead of how we'd like it to work.
My conclusion is that Bernie Sanders should have this discussion in private with Joe Biden, there is almost certainly some truth in it. It doesn't need to be public, or if it is public it should be managed as it's own psyop against the GOP. My complaint for years has been that the compromise candidate is almost certainly going to be a more "centrist" politician. They need to remember that they are the compromise candidate of an alliance, and mistreating your alliance partners will cost you allies. We cannot afford that behavior from the center or the left.