Convention of States: The Right Wing Takeover Has Only Just Begun.

For decades, right wing actors have been steadily tearing apart critical protections of our democracy and stacking the deck in their favor. Civil rights and liberties that were hard fought and then eventually assumed have slowly disappeared. Voting rights. Privacy. Worker projections. Economic mobility. And soon, as we now know, people’s rights to their own bodies. Nothing happens overnight and the process has been slow, steady and painful because the right wing in America is deliberate, organized and patient. Today we examine yet another long-term, right wing attempt to hijack the political system called a Convention of States. Libertarian conservatives have been playing a long chess game while Democrats and liberals have been playing checkers. 

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:51

Chapter One: So what the fuck is this thing? 00:02:59

Chapter Two: What’s the end game here? 00:10:24

Chapter Three: Um, is this what the framers intended? 00:15:59

Chapter Four: We might need more states. 00:23:21

Chapter Five: Bring it home, Max. 00:32:50

Outro: 00:56:01

Resources

Convention of States Action

Common Cause: The Dangerous Path- Big Money’s Plan to Shred the Constitution

SourceWatch: Convention of States Action

Planned Parenthood: Griswold v. Connecticut

The Guardian: In 2013 the supreme court gutted voting rights – how has it changed the US?

UNFTR Episode Resources

Stupid White Guy Olympics.

F*ck Milton Friedman.

Libertarians Are Exhausting (Part I).

Libertarians Are Exhausting (Part II).

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