To all Americans,

I am exercising my freedoms under our first Amendment to organize our next Constitutional Convention. I ask that you join me so that together we can organize the greatest democratic experiment in history and fix our government for good.

The Constitution was genius for its time, but the government it upholds can no longer meet the demands of a modern, digital society. Replacing it is absolutely necessary for our safety and happiness. Until we regain control of our government, the one that has been hijacked by soulless corporations and callous aristocrats, life for all of us just gets worse. The things upon which all our lives depend, the colossal environmental, economic, and political systems that affect all of us are all failing simultaneously; and they are failing because our government is failing to regulate our civilization adequately. Until we fix our fundamental problem, until we fix our government, life for us just keeps getting worse; prices keep rising, the culture war keeps intensifying, and the rule of law keeps breaking down.

Imagine our current government as an old home. In this house, cockroaches infest the cupboards, mold grows unchecked in the bathrooms, the roof leaks with every storm, and it all rests on a cracked foundation. Everyone you love is living inside of this decaying home, one built centuries ago, one teetering on the verge of collapse. It is impossible to say which wall will fall first or which storm will blow the house down, but it is obvious that disaster is immanent. A house as rotten as ours cannot be repaired. Unless we move to a new home, structural collapse and acute tragedy are inevitable.

I believe that the best of all possible options open to us is to organize a Constitutional Convention, to organize a meeting where we design a new home for the American People. Unlike our previous Convention however, we should broadcast and livestream the discussions of our delegates so that “We the People” can criticize, comment, and cheer from the safety and comfort of our homes. This motion would generate an enormous amount of data regarding the ever-invoked “Will of the People”, allow our foremost experts to teach the American People about their specific niche of expertise, and provide a unifying narrative for the nation as a whole. By combining executive direction, subject matter expertise, and public feedback, I believe we can design the best government, the best home, in the world. I believe that the livestreaming of our governmental reboot, the threading together of epistemic expertise, digital technology, and popular feedback, has the potential to become the greatest democratic experiment in recorded history.

We are down late in the fourth quarter and a Hail Mary is the only play that makes any sense. Extreme circumstances require proportional responses, and while the risks of replacing our government are enormous, so are the rewards of doing so successfully. To minimize risk and maximize chances of success, this website goes on to explain exactly why such a radical step is necessary, how this Convention would work, what our next government could be, and what our new Constitution might look like. Metaphorically speaking, this website has a candid inspection report of our current home, a rough sketch of a blueprint for our next one, and a collection of specialists to refine and build it.

We live in an age defined by information and narratives, an era where stories and ideas can spread to billions of minds in a matter of hours if they create enough emotion. I cannot imagine a more appealing (or controversial) story than an instantaneous, non-violent, digital, democratic, diplomatic revolution against a tyrannical, corrupt, seemingly all-powerful government. I believe that all this story needs to make this Convention inevitable is to reach a critical amount of public support; and that is something you can control. You can share this idea with almost everyone you know with virtually zero effort if you choose to do so. And I think you should. Because without an initiative of this magnitude, without fixing our government at a foundational level, there is no real hope for us as a society. The government is broken, it needs fixing, and this proposal is probably the best plan to actually fix it you are going to see.

The dream is not to make our Union great again, the dream is to make our Union greater than ever. I believe this dream has the power to reunite our fragmented, polarized population. And my sincere, unflinching, immensely powerful hope is that this dream becomes your own, and that in turn, you help it become the unifying story for our distressed, oppressed, suppressed nation.

Best wishes,
Marcos

“These are the times that try men's souls; the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
Thomas Paine