A cautionary warning related to TERM LIMITS (pb)

The people responsible for setting current congressional term limits are the voters. We're supposed to vote them out! That's our job and we've been failing at it (apathy, rigging, lobbying, corruption, deceit). It was our watch and our job and we have failed. And now Congress is full of corruption and decrepit old fogies getting rich on kickbacks.

Thus it seems easy to say 'Term Limits will fix it' and call for a Convention of States and hope to encode congressional term limits so we don't have to focus so hard on our jobs of voting these corrupt deceitful assholes out.

BUT…Constitutional scholars say that opening a Convention of States, just to amend term limits (or any other amendment) COULD open the door to editing the Constitution itself, and lead to a runaway convention where Congress just does whatever the hell they want to it. Because, no matter who starts the Convention or why, it is legally directed by the Constitution itself that the Convention goes back into the hands of Congress for final editing and voting.

And they could scrap the whole foundational thing. That's a very real legal possibility, and the John Birch society (which has been fighting communism since Reagan) has noted that the commies occasionally push themselves for a CoS to test the waters. They don't know for sure if they can cause it to runaway either, but they would try…since its such an old 'outdated' document in their mindset, and a CoS could be the only way they can reach their ultimate goals to get rid of the 1st and 2nd amendments.

>>Congress would never do that

Oh really? you would trust them with the entire Constitution and give them a blank check with it? This same congress that has drummed up lie after lie after lie? You'd trust Nancy Pelosi and her nephew, china spy Diane Feinstein, compromised Schiff and Swallwell?

>>We wouldn't let them runaway with the Convention

Have you been able to stop them from their corruption so far?

>>The Constitution doesn't say they can do more than the Convention submits to Congress

It doesn't say they can't. Once you give them the ability to edit the Constitution, do you trust them To DO THE RIGHT THING and not try to force it to their advantage?

No matter who calls the Convention, the draft that we the people submit, goes back to Congress, and Congress handles its final form. Remember who is in Congress and who will get their hands on it, before you push a CoS for term limits.

It is far better for us to do OUR jobs and vote them the hell out instead of voting them in again and again and again, than risk a runaway convention at this point.

AT least wait until you know that the swamp has been drained and you could trust congress enough to put the Constitution in their hands.