> backers of the convention idea now hope to harness the power of Republican-controlled state legislatures to petition Congress and force a convention they see as a way to strip away power from Washington and impose new fiscal restraints, at a minimum
I might take this seriously if federal-level Republicans ever made a principled stand for fiscal restraint. Instead, they wholeheartedly endorse the Keynesian low interest rate treadmill and gluttonous corporate welfare, while making a show of opposing any spending that would compensate for the havoc it then wreaks on the middle class. Kicking off the downfall, the gold standard was ended under Nixon, a Republican. And in the present day, our economy is currently being ravaged by the $6B Trumpflation, that Republicans are desperately trying to pin on the current administration who merely showed up after the fuse was lit.
Modern Monetary Theory and the Austrian School are the two ends of the spectrum of honest approaches. The Republican money-printing corporate-giveaway "trickle-down" hypocrisy has destroyed the decentralized economy, and pinned our younger generations under a crushing asset bubble that leaves them little route to starting families of their own. Politically, the lack of a coherent fiscally restrained political option is exactly what is causing younger people to abandon belief in "late stage capitalism" all together, and embrace even more centralized approaches. The first step to creating a workable political alternative is to call out Republican fiscal hypocrisy for what it is.
I think what the Republicans want is to strip power from the Federal government to prevent it from acting as a check against the Supreme Court, and the ability of Southern states to pass extremist laws in the wake of its recent decisions. That or an Amendment banning abortion and gay marriage altogether, but I don't think that's likely to pass muster.
Religious fundamentalism only becomes attractive due to economic disenfranchisement. The fundamentalism also serves as a distraction from the economic conditions. It seems as if we're coming to the moment of truth of whether the Republican Party's four decades of looting-destruction politics has formed an inescapable death spiral, or if we can pull up.
(Just to be clear here - I have little love for the Democratic Party or the deep state. But I'd rather have the wheels stay on the cart than have it be overrun by misled nutjobs)
I might take this seriously if federal-level Republicans ever made a principled stand for fiscal restraint. Instead, they wholeheartedly endorse the Keynesian low interest rate treadmill and gluttonous corporate welfare, while making a show of opposing any spending that would compensate for the havoc it then wreaks on the middle class. Kicking off the downfall, the gold standard was ended under Nixon, a Republican. And in the present day, our economy is currently being ravaged by the $6B Trumpflation, that Republicans are desperately trying to pin on the current administration who merely showed up after the fuse was lit.
Modern Monetary Theory and the Austrian School are the two ends of the spectrum of honest approaches. The Republican money-printing corporate-giveaway "trickle-down" hypocrisy has destroyed the decentralized economy, and pinned our younger generations under a crushing asset bubble that leaves them little route to starting families of their own. Politically, the lack of a coherent fiscally restrained political option is exactly what is causing younger people to abandon belief in "late stage capitalism" all together, and embrace even more centralized approaches. The first step to creating a workable political alternative is to call out Republican fiscal hypocrisy for what it is.