Republicans would need control of at least 34 state legislatures to be able to call such a convention, and 37 to ratify any amendments.
So far they have unified control of 31 state legislatures. Of those 31, 19 have signed onto an application for an Article V Convention put forward by Convention of States, a conservative activist group.
https://www.businessinsider.com/constitutional-convention-conservative-scholar-states-2022-8
https://www.businessinsider.com/constitutional-convention-conservatives-republicans-constitution-supreme-court-2022-7
I think that because the Holocaust was so insanely, unambiguously, brutally evil, sometimes people, myself included, have trouble remembering and truly understanding it was an actual thing that happened and that it could happen again.
Like obviously I know it happened, but the idea that could happen here, to me and/or people I know, is so far from the life I know that it almost seems impossible. But obviously it’s not.
Err bro. If you live in North America, you reside on a land inherited from a mass State endorsed genocide. The US was an apartheid state up till the 60s and 70s. A third of all Puerto Rican women were sterilized between the 30s and 70s. Almost 25% of indigenous women in the Us were sterilized in the 60s and 70s. There've been American Holocausts since the founding of the USA. Almost al of US medical knowledge comes from hideous experiments done on African Americans or inherited from Nazi or Japanese experiments on their captives.
The life that is portrayed is just a thin veneer on top of the evils that are purposely not taught...
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I’m very aware of all of that but those all fall in that exact same feeling of “I know these things are possible because they’ve happened, but since nothing I’ve ever seen in my life is even a fraction as horrifying I don’t even know how to understand the possibility”
I guess that works for most people. My first year in the US, I had people showing me nooses from their cars and threatening to lynch me, so our viewpoints might be somewhat dissimilar. I think if you are visibly non-white, or visibly not gender conforming/ hetero, the feeling is quite a bit different. I've always felt since then that it wouldn't take much for the mask to slip if society took a few steps back..
I stood in line for 7 hours to vote last time, and those voting rights are not coming back. It's a death of social democracy by a thousand small cuts..
The whole conservative movement's stated goal is to go back to their "good old days", which only were good for white, property owning, males. And they've never stopped working for that.
Ugh, I know exactly what you mean. I wish I knew what to call it. I feel like I oscilate between my rational part of my brain thinking "The hammer is coming down, it's about to happen here, get the fuck out ASAP" and some other part of my brain being like "What? Here? But my day to day life hasn't really changed, how could this all be up-ended so quickly? Is overt fascism really just a couple years away?" Obviously it's where we're headed, it just doesn't feel real some days.