I had a dream recently about three groups, two of whom have abused, corrupted, and edited (that’s a polite way of saying rewritten) our Constitution.
The third group had been brainwashed by the other two for generations to believe that they had no power and, in fact, needed a big government to take care of them.
The truth is the third group (We the People) have immense power to stop the other two groups and reverse the damage they have done to our Constitution and our country.
The problem was trying to convince We the People that they indeed had this power. How was I going to overcome generations of programming to the contrary?
I thought about giving inspirational quotes from the likes of Zig Ziglar, modern and past war heroes, the Founding Fathers, but there are too many.
The one that sticks in my mind is a quote from one of the last survivors of the American Revolution, Captain Levi Preston.
In short, when asked why he stood to fight the British he said, “We had always governed ourselves and we intended that we always would. Those Redcoats intended we shouldn’t.”
Now, we don’t have to resort to using guns to overthrow the tyrants within our own government. The Framers of the Constitution saw to that. They gave us the second method of proposing amendments in Article V, known today as the Convention of States.
This is a non-violent, powerful constitutional tool that we can use. But it’s useless without people behind it.
