This month, I spent two days in Washington, D.C., with a group of friends.
We went to remind members of Congress of their oath to the U.S. Constitution and that we elected them to defend that document. We were locked out of buildings where our elected officials worked, and their offices ignored our phone calls and emails.
I left D.C. and said to my friends, “We need a Convention of States now.”
We were told we weren’t couldn’t visit our elected representatives in their offices because of COVID. And they wouldn't leave their offices to talk to us for five minutes. We couldn’t even get a tour of the capitol.
So, we stood in freezing temperatures in suits and blazers to talk to representatives as they crossed the street from the Capitol.
A friend said, “If you live in D.C., you assume you don’t know what is going on in the rest of the country.” Not only does D.C. not know what is going on in the rest of the country, the majority of D.C. doesn’t care to know.
I saw firsthand that Washington is broken and will not fix itself. The D.C. elites have no intention of giving its power back to the people. They don’t want to know what the people think or want. They just want to continue in their bubble, miles away from their home states and districts.
I went to D.C. to tell my representative what the people in his district wanted. It took at least 10 phone calls, 10 emails, and traveling hundreds of miles to get him to meet with me. I spoke to him on behalf of many friends and family in his district, because he wouldn't hear their concerns. Despite all of this, he wouldn't stand for the Constitution.
The Founders did not want power centralized in any branch and most definitely not in one city like D.C. They wanted the people to have the greatest power and that power to be close to home.
I saw their wisdom when I went to D.C. Congress has forgotten who the most powerful people in this country are supposed to be. It should be us, the people.
My two days in D.C. showed me that no amount of petitioning will convince Congress to give their power back to the people. The people must constrain the government again.
The only way to do that is through calling a Convention of States and limiting the power and jurisdiction of the federal government. I was not disheartened by my experience in D.C. I came home determined not simply to tell Americans that I saw the problem, but to tell them that the Founders gave us a solution.
That solution is for the people to remind Washington who is in charge by calling a Convention of States.
