I understand this perspective, but this isn't how you win elections. People talk about progressives being lazy, but leaving the party won't win elections. What wins elections is grassroots campaigning, winning local leadership elections within the GOP, and door to door campaigning for candidates.
No, there's no guarantee we would keep the Constitution. The framers started with the Articles of Confederation and finished with the Constitution.
https://www.cato.org/blog/libertarian-progressive-conservative-constitutions
I know Mark Levin is a big proponent of this, but doing this is a really really bad idea for us.
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Who decides who gets sent to the convention? Is it Congress? We just saw them certify Joe Biden. Do the states? Several states with Republican legislatures delayed and refused to do anything but hold hearings which only came after public complaints.
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Who is sent to the convention? The Republican Party doesn't care about limited government. Do you think they're going to send constitutional conservatives to do the reforms?
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Can you guarantee the ratifiers wouldn't come out with an entirely new progressive or weakened document?
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Do you trust your state to refuse to ratify a new document or a weakened Constitution?
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What is the recourse if they ratify a new weakened constitution? Do you trust your state enough to take a risk?
Most want anything but to need to get involved personally through giving up hobbies, Internet time, or sports to go to meetings to discuss tough issues and give up more time to run for a GOP, not a local, position. This is how you top down politically change the party and country. It's not going to come when you rely on the current GOP to decide your representation for you and just go vote on primary and general election day. It takes a lot of work that frankly I don't think a lot of conservatives want to do.
They don't get their money from us, they get it from corporations. They don't care that you don't give them money. The way to win is to pay GOP dues to run for GOP posts locally, but no one wants to get off the Internet and run for a party position.
Do you know how difficult it is to get a new party on the ballot? Who's going to organize a new party? Most of us didn't even sit through GOP meetings before 2020, what makes you think that's going to change with a new party that gets started? A new party needs precinct captains, ballot access, and local leadership. It needs funding. It needs to get its message to loyal Republicans and Democrats who won't ever change parties. It needs to reach voters who don't pay attention and dislike politics. It needs candidates who aren't compromised. What are you going to do to vet candidates for opportunists? No, what you need to do is pay dues to join your local GOP, then run for a leadership position. If millions of Americans did that, the entire party would reform.
What does leaving the Republican Party accomplish? Do you think millions changing to independent has changed anything? No, again, the local level is critical in American politics.
If you don't pay dues at the local level of the GOP and run for a local GOP position, things are never going to change. It's got to be citizens paying to join the party in large numbers combined with MAGA candidates for office.
At some point you need to stop hoping and come back to reality, Joe Biden's going to be president. There is nothing more that can be done. Unless he can put together a case that it was Antifa and get on the phone with state legislators to decertify, he is not going to stay in office.
What has leaving the party accomplished? Do you see anything changing in that decade? It's the people who stay as registered Republicans, vote, and who pay dues to join local/state parties who enabled President Trump to win.
They don't like us regardless. Americans keep leaving and nothing changes. They don't care if millions of us leave since they're keeping the donors. What you and some friends should do instead is pay dues to join your local/state party then run for elected party leadership positions. That's how you change the local and state politics.
That's completely fine with them. It's a lot easier to leave the party than it is to pay dues to join and run for a party position to change the Republican party. Getting a third party on the ballot's going to be almost impossible to do.
They don't care that you left the party, the party could change if we all paid to join the party and got elected to party positions. The Democrats/Republicans control ballot access, if you think it's going to be easy to get third parties on the ballot you're really wrong. We know 70-80 million voted for President Trump, if even a fraction, like a million, paid to join across the country, and ran for county positions, the entire party would change.
When he says "you" are the names on the sealed indictments, who does he mean? Does he mean users on 4chan or conservatives in general?