Yes, we, today, are smart enough to rethink our Constitution and should not be afraid to do it. To change our Constitution, 34 states must vote to hold a national convention. To amend the Constitution, it takes 38 of the states to ratify the changes. There are many things that should be looked at—good or bad. The bad things include a long obsession by the conservative movement for a so-called balanced budget amendment. This would make the government powerless to borrow its way out of a recession. The government would have to cut spending at the very moment it was most needed. The cuts would most likely be made to benefit programs instead of raising taxes on the wealthiest and eliminating the inheritance tax.
The effort to change the Constitution is being funded by the Koch brothers, Coors, DeVos and the Walton families, who produce op-eds and other positive-sounding propaganda that touts the need for such a convention. At this time, 29 states have voted to a hold a Constitutional convention. Only five states are needed to reach the magic number of 34.
Now what might be very good for the 99 percent maybe the abolition of the Electoral College, which was originally designed to bolster the power of the slaveholders. The Electoral College now just acts like a political life support for the outdated racial ideological descendants. The convention might also come to an agreement on term limits for U.S. Supreme Court justices. Why should a president be able to appoint justices who shape the life of a nation to a particular political ideology for many years after they have left the bench? Some think an eighteen-year-nonreturnable term, which would see a new justice every other year. Using term limits could restore some sanity to the U.S. Supreme Court delation process.
Other issues could be raised, such as the right to healthcare, education, housing, the right to vote, minimum wage based on cost of living, and implementing a universal basic income. To have people selected for the convention, we could use a lottery to select a few hundred Americans. This is just some things to think about.
It has been 156 years since the Constitution was adopted. Maybe we need to reboot and tune up some things.
Have FBI agitators infiltrated our labor unions like the FBI did during black rights movement, feminist movement, and anti-Vietnam protests to sow the seeds of division between the factions and Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammed—to control and disrupt our labor movements from the inside? We don’t know at this time, and is anyone in the media or government looking into this? The war on labor and the effort to drag us back to serf wages is coming from within the White House with some labor union and MAGA members. Corporations are padding their accounts and of one greedy man instead of its workers. The war on labor is and will be fought between corporation titans and labor, and at this time the corporations will use the White House, courts and the FBI and even those at Homeland Security and I.C.E. against us. Labor must educate our members on how counter and what tactics are being used by the corporations and government against labor and the average person in general. How many people have lost...
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