Author and and senior editor of The Blaze, Daniel Horowitz joined an edifying February 3 webinar for Convention of States activists.
He reinforced the importance of our grassroots movement's focus upon just that--the grassroots.
Tyranny in the United States, he said, continues to grow at the hands of the Uniparty, while the recourse of the sovereign citizenry continues to narrow.
This was most recently demonstrated by the controversy involving Wyoming's lone member of Congress: Liz Cheney.
Despite overwhelming opposition from her constituents and the Wyoming Republican Party central committee (which has since censured her and called for her immediate resignation), Cheney voted to impeach President Trump on January 13 for his alleged role in the January 6 incident at the Capitol on what can generously be labeled shaky constitutional grounds.
Cheney refuses to resign. House Republicans amplified indifference to her constituents and Wyoming Republican leadership by comfortably permitting Cheney to retain her powerful post as House Republican Conference Chair--following a secret vote of 145-61.
Not only did Cheney ignore the will of the people she claims to represent without penalty, she retained her position of power within the House Republican caucus. The saga demonstrates once again that the attitude of members of Congress and the entrenched bureaucracy toward the citizenry is "It's a big club, and you're not in it."
The purported opposition party seems to be (as the title of the Rodgers and Hart tune goes) "glad to be unhappy." Liberty is eroded and the Constitution erased every day Congress is in session with little more than token resistance.
This amplifies Horowitz's contention that we can't wait four years--or even two years--and hope that a new president or new Congress will turn things around. Yes, Wyoming citizens will work to primary Cheney, but she will hold her seat until at least 2023 and all of the advantages incumbency brings.
Horowitz reminded us that, as James Madison wrote in Federalist 46, states have the means of opposition. States with constitutionally-minded majorities in their legislatures must establish Constitutional Sanctuaries in order to re-establish individual sovereignty and "make self-government great again."
A Convention of States that proposes term limits, restrictions on federal spending, and other measures that return power to the states and the people, Horowitz said, "reorients the pyramid of government."
Convincing the requisite number of state legislatures to utilize their power to circumvent and limit Congress takes those of us in the COS movement to work as if the fate of the republic hangs in the balance--because it does.
In Massachusetts that work takes the form of continuing our significant growth and outreach and utilizing it to urge members of the General Court to support SD 206, the COS resolution filed for the new session.
Only at the grassroots level can we spread the word, work with our state representatives and senators, and pass the COS resolution on Beacon Hill.
As Horowitz reminded us, COS can demonstrate that the states have the means of opposition to return the United States to the path of self-government without congressional assent.
We may not be in the club, but we have the tool to rewrite the rules without the approval of club membership.
