re: #286 EPR-radar

A constitutional convention would be a disaster, but fixing the flaws in the existing constitution will be somewhere between difficult and impossible.

The fact that equal suffrage of the states in the Senate can’t be amended is especially problematic. Unless the Senate is turned (by amendment) into something fairly useless, it means a red state minority will have serious blocking power, indefinitely.

My guess is that a constitutional convention would have the same result as the last one: the current constitution would be scraped in its entirety and a new one drawn up to replace it.

And we probably don’t have the statesmen/women to pull that off. The cultural differences between red states and blue states would be a pain in the ass to overcome. The structural disputes between big and small states would be an equal nightmare