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Our Story 2025: James Bond & Elon Musk [1]

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Date: 2025-01-18

So much going on in the world and my story is that 2025, it’s been clear for over a decade an amendment for a federal voting standard, and removal of private campaign funds from elections, and we’d have an actual and legitimate democracy.

Women used to not be able to vote, then an amendment delivered justice to that wrong; amendments solve problems once and for all, and obviously we need one on electoral reform (unless you think Trump and Elon are cool, or that we will somehow vote in new members of Congress one day who will finally propose it).

There are only two modes of proposal in the USA, Congress or this other thing, properly known as the Article V Convention. Some people believe there are risks and uncertainties about it even though the last ten years of American scholarship has proven them ill-informed, utterly bogus.

How could a non-binding deliberative assembly of non-politicians re-write the Constitution? It can’t. An opinion by a Justice Brewer (1890s) already noted how the Equal Protection Clause provides the operational details to a convention: Members of Congress and Article V Delegates form a political class as the only individuals under the Sun who can formally debate/propose an amendment. They have to be treated equally because there is no reason not to when the task of both bodies is identical—to debate/propose; a delegate must meet the minimum criteria for a member of Congress—be a certain age and have been residing in the state elected for certain amount of years; if a member of Congress suffers an election to obtain power to propose, so too do delegates; a proposal must pass 2/3 of the convention in order to be formally submitted to the states for possible ratification, just like Congress, etc. etc. etc.

If we can just get liberals to stop seeing ALEC boogey-men at the convention, then we’ll be able to formally discuss our collective situation. What could the Koch Foundation et. al., or multinational corporations, propose what 75%+ of the living today would agree to? Nothing. Seventy-five percent approval is a political principle which mathematically precludes partisan nonsense from ever becoming high-law. Mark Meckler’s private group Convention of States wants to talk about what they want to talk about, I look forward to seeing smart liberals talking about what they want to talk about—what Bernie just talked about with Lex Fridman some weeks ago—campaign finance/electoral reform.

Good thing is, COS now has millions of members, plus the millions of liberals who correctly comprehend what a convention actually is, that now we’re at the tipping-point. We can achieve the call this year if enough of us wake up to realize the convention fear-mongering liberals are now part of the problem. There are only two trains—Congress or a convention—one of those has left the station with Citizen’s United and it’s not coming back without an amendment. What amendment will that be? That’s up to the convention and the people it represents, the political polls of the past fifty years though, show that the only issue with overwhelming and broad support is electoral reform. Are some liberals really so cross-eyed with fear and hate that they couldn’t shake with a Trump supporter on electoral reform?

Shifting gears here, and to the prompt, my story is like many who see the writing on the wall where it's like no one has ever seen a James Bond movie with a psycho billionaire villain. A guy contracted with the NRO to put up a second-to-second surveillance "architecture"; and who says his Optima robot will one day be plentiful as human beings themselves? The guy who wants to save human consciousness by going to Mars when an endeavor of his (AI) is scrambling human conscious right now? And he's done nothing but talk about the need to address it? The guy who has never uttered a peep about the fundamental mainstream consensus, that elections ought to be standardized with removal of private campaign funding? When, all the science says humans can't exist outside the Van Allen belt? It’s like everyone believes Hollywood and its depiction of life in space when it can’t happen because we’re actually electromagnetically part of Earth. It's like no one has ever seen a James Bond movie. But some of us are living it, that’s our story. Thankfully it’s not over yet, and here we go into a new year. First step, get yourself informed. Friends of the Article V Convention (FOAVC) has all the correct information.

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