The far right are becoming ever more vocal in their belief that they represent the viewpoint of a significant majority of Americans.  An article today   by FoxNews  states ”

 What if a supermajority of states could override a federal law or Supreme Court ruling? That’s just one idea being proposed by advocates of a “convention of states” to amend the U.S. Constitution. “The American people are mad and they’re looking for a way to say, ‘No more,’” said Brooke Rollins, president and CEO of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative think tank. “Our founders, in their brilliance, gave us a tool to do that. And it’s Article V.”

I think it is rather sad that seemingly intelligent people can be seduced by their own rhetoric into believing their views are far more popular than they are.  It is as if these people simply pretend places like NYC, San Francisco and Boston where  ultra- conservatives are as rare as Dodo birds, don’t exist.   Not only do they fail to imagine the chaos that would ensue if America held a constitutional convention; but it seems not to occurred to them at all that the far left have an agenda too, and there are a lot of them as well.

With the percentage of Americans who hold to and articulate the core liberal values enshrined in the Bill of Rights continually shrinking I find the idea of such a convention terrifying.  It would become a battle between the totalitarian theocratic right against the totalitarian identity politics left.  Think Germany in 1925.  And like Germany after WWI, liberalism and universal human rights would be trampled by the totalitarians on both sides.  It could literally spell the end of the great American experiment and/or lead to a second Civil War.

This is simply the worse idea of all the crazy ideas spawned by the far right.