Saw a post on Mastodon from someone in Hungary saying that it’s now a soft dictatorship. They cautioned us not to let Trump/Musk get rid of our checks and balances.

https://social.coop/@judell/114091295390017218

Our checks and balances are built in to our constitution, by and large (apart from Congress ceding power to the President over the years and the Supreme Court becoming owned by the Right).

So, we’d need a constitutional convention to erase our checks and balances. Unlikely, right?

Not so much. A number of states have already officially called for a convention over the years, without rescinding their votes. And it’s unknown if recesion is even effective, legally.

So, like Project 2025, there’s a body of people on the right who have planned for a convention for *years*. And they want to make it happen. And that’s where the bad decisions of the Supreme Court could be enshrined permanently or good decisions overturned. Where Congress could be made into a rubber stamp. Where the Federal government could be dismantled with *no* option of rebuilding. Where the right of private militias to own complete military weapon systems could be written into unchangeable law. And on and on. There are no rules for what a constitutional convention can’t do.

We cannot be caught flat-footed. “It can’t happen here” is simply not true.

https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/some-democrats-fear-a-runaway-constitutional-convention-has-threshold-already-been-met

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_to_propose_amendments_to_the_United_States_Constitution