Does Project 2025 Call for a Constitutional Convention?
When I planned this newsletter, I had no idea I’d listen to two enraging Supreme Court sessions in one week. Please read today’s newsletter carefully. (Scroll to the end to listen)
Reader Question: Does Project 2025 Call for a Constitutional Convention?
Project 2025 DOES NOT call for a Constitutional Convention, but this omission shouldn’t give Americans any comfort.
The framers of P2025 assert that their Christo-fascist manifesto IS what the Founders intended when they wrote the Constitution. If they win in November, they will gaslight Americans with the idea that they are changing the government to be what the Founders meant.
The American Republic was founded on principles prioritizing and maximizing individuals’ rights to live their best life or to enjoy what the Framers called “the Blessings of Liberty.” It’s this radical equality—liberty for all—not just of rights but of authority—that the rich and powerful have hated about democracy in America since 1776. They resent Americans’ audacity in insisting that we don’t need them to tell us how to live. It’s this inalienable right of self-direction—of each person’s opportunity to direct himself or herself, and his or her community, to the good— that the ruling class disdains. With the Declaration and Constitution, our nation’s Founders handed to us the means with which to preserve this right. Abraham Lincoln wrote of the Dec-laration as an “apple of gold” in a silver frame, the Constitution. So must the next conservative President look to these documents when the elites mount their next assault on liberty.
Project 2025, page 14
In other words, the evil Left has twisted the Constitution to serve their own wicked ends. It is up to Christo-fascist Republicans to force the country back to government the Founders intended when they wrote the Constitution.
To understand their approach, we must first grasp how Christian Nationalists interpret the Bible. For example, they point to specific verses to justify their assertion that life begins at fertilization, making both abortion and contraception murder. They ignore the fact the many Christians, both Catholic and Protestant, use different verses to justify, or at the very least not condemn, abortion. To Christian Nationalists, their Biblical interpretation is what God meant, and anything else is heresy.
They are building their Christo-fascist laws on a thought-terminating cliche: Our interpretation of the Bible is what God meant. We know what God meant better than you.
It’s not like we can argue. We can’t ask God whose interpretation is correct.
Leonard Leo probably used this tenet of Biblical interpretation when pulling the concept of Originalism from the bowels of his Opus Dei-addled brain.
Corrupt Federalist Society attorneys, judges, and justices have used the concept of Originalism to overturn precedent and force Christo-fascist legal interpretations on the masses. To them, their Constitutional interpretation is what the Founders meant, and anything else is heresy.
Thus they have built their cadre of Christo-fascist attorneys and a corresponding judiciary on a thought-terminating cliche: Originalism is our interpretation of the Constitution, and it’s what the Founders meant. We know what the Founders meant better than you.
While we can argue, pen our legal papers, and give interviews to the contrary, we can’t exhume the Founders and ask them whose interpretation is correct.
This is how Christian Nationalist politicians and judges gaslight Americans on multiple fronts: Our interpretation is the anointed one because we say it is. And you can’t prove it’s not.
Even if the Christo-fascist Republican Party loses in November, the United States isn’t safe. For over a decade, far-right groups have been gunning to call a Constitutional Convention.
Article V of the Constitution allows for a new Constitutional Convention to be called when 34 states ratify the request. An affirmative vote of 38 states would pass any changes to our Constitution at that convention.
From the Convention of States Action, the far-right group that has been coordinating this effort for more than a decade:
Our resolution calls for an Article V Convention of States to make proposals that “limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, impose fiscal restraints, and place term limits on federal officials.” Once two-thirds (34) of the states pass our Resolution, the convention will be called.
This verbiage could have been pulled straight from Project 2025. Or more likely, the framers of Project 2025 used it when drafting their Christo-fascist manifesto.
According to the Convention of States Action website, 19 states have passed their resolution to call a Constitutional Convention. Since I’m not linking to them, I’ll list those states with the year they approved it: Georgia, Alaska, Florida (2014); Alabama (2015); Tennessee, Oklahoma, Indiana, Louisiana (2016); Arizona, North Dakota, Texas, Missouri (2017); Arkansas, Utah, Mississippi (2019); Wisconsin, West Virginia, Nebraska, South Carolina (2022).
States where this resolution has passed one chamber but not both: New Mexico, Iowa, South Dakota, Virginia, North Carolina, New Hampshire, and Wyoming.
States actively considering this resolution in 2024: Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington.
These fucking fascists are literally the biggest liars, everything they say is an attempt at the Jedi mind trick. And explaining what they think the Constitution is about, they act as if they (the fascist) are the ones that are oppressed, they lump themselves in with the rest of us regular sane folks who don't buy into the dogma and ideology of their damn bible.
If the founding fathers were around today they would be horrified that every single Republican, and all the religious rhetoric, worshiping, ideology happening at the national level, state level, public schools. They would also be horrified at all the guns and mass shootings.
The Christian taliban's "understanding" of the Constitution is (IMO) not how they really believe it's written......it's what they're trying to twist and contort it into, they have it completely wrong, completely backwards.
Nearly 4,500 words in the Constitution and not one of them is god, jesus, allah, bible, quran, noses, immaculate conception, garden of eden, resurrection.....
I saw a perfect meme today, I wish I could attach it here but I can't. Here is what it said:
" I don't give a fuck what your 21st century pastor believes a 17th century King meant when he told priests to take passages from 4th Century scribes who wrote about what they believe a 1st century goat herder saw. Keep your religious interpretations out of my government"