Thank you. This is a well-thought-out and incisive suggestion which would nonetheless require active participation by reasonable people. I worry that the Republican Organization has stacked this deck profoundly against such participation. I'm not seeing any people's movement to compare with the MAGA and fundamentalist religious movements. Maybe that is due to journalistic bias against good news.

I've become despondent regarding this Democratic yielding of the field and started reviewing ways to bring the reasonable folks back into play. My proposals (e.g., https://medium.com/@julianstaylor/gerrymander-to-gerrymaster-fa6a214efae9) are attempts to moderate the malignant environment cultivated by the right wing so that normal democracy may again function. This essay suggests the possibility that there are existing organizations with sufficient clout to bring about positive change despite such an environment.

I would like to believe that is true and I will try to be optimistic. Certainly Cenk Uygur's organization made great progress and perhaps that alone should inspire optimism. My concern remains that the right wing is the only team in play while the Democratic Party is largely in the bleachers. I worry that that will skew the procedure applied to any Article V convention.