A Second Constitutional Convention? Some Republicans Want to Force One

Of course the media tells us most Republicans are racist misogynists slavering for a new empire led by an anointed God King. They seem to have a distorted view, in other words; so its hardly surprising that they're inaccurate here, either.

He and I tend to be on opposite sides of the political spectrum, though I'd say we're both fairly centrist. I'm trying to assess whether he's been caught up in an alarmist bubble, or if there is reason for real concern.

This article makes me think I've been burying my head in the sand.

If you have expatriated from the US, where'd you end up, and how do you feel about that decision in retrospect?

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.