States Rights is dangerously archaic

[superpatriotman]

I am a Democrat living in a deep blue part of a red state, and I wouldn’t trust my state to organize a one-person orgy. City rights, or even neighborhood rights would be more acceptable to me.

I’ve said it before on the board. The Constitution is in dire need of a rewrite.

The Dominionist Christofascist minority is taking over and must be neutered.

What the ‘founders’ wanted or intended is archaic, and means very little in our modern world. They were not gods or seers.

Time for a Constitutional Convention to codify that we are not a theocracy.

[Darwins_Retriever]

1. 30 state legislatures are dominated by republicans

Which means that a constitutional convention would be dominated by republicans. When you call a convention, everything is up for grabs. Can you imagine what a republican dominated convention would do?

[The Revolution]

2. A Constitutional Convention

Could be extremely dangerous. At this point, I would say its more likely that God would be codified into the Constitution than any kind of declaration that we are not a theocracy.

There aren't going to be any easy answers here. The right spent decades working towards their goals one election at a time. We'll have to do the same.

Also, the whole "State's Rights" thing has always been a farce. They will throw it away as soon as it isn't convenient. For example, the idea of State's Rights was relied on heavily to protect slavery in the south, but that didn't stop them from imposing the Fugitive Slave Act on everybody else when the time came.