To all true Americans:
I'm about to pitch you the best hope I’ve ever made. It can be reduced to a single question. Should we organize a Constitutional Convention?
I am not proposing an Article V convention of states. We would not add an amendment to the Constitution, we would draft an entirely new document.
Second key question: Is that even allowed?
I think so. The 1st Amendment guarantees our right to free speech and peaceful assembly; the 9th Amendment states that the rights listed in the Constitution are not exhaustive; and the 10th states that all other rights are retained by the People.
Among these retained rights is the right to alter or abolish our government when it becomes destructive to our lives, liberty, and happiness, as stated in the Declaration of Independence. The power to convene a Constitutional Convention is not specifically delegated in the Constitution, yet the Declaration states it is a right; therefore, it must be one of the natural rights reserved to the American People. As an American citizen, I am exercising that unenumerated, inalienable right to convene a full Constitutional Convention. I invite you to exercise that right with me.
Joining me will undoubtedly invite calls of sedition, treason, and insurrection. These accusations are false. Nonviolence is the only non-negotiable aspect of this proposal, and all three accusations require use of violence. Frankly, this movement is the most American thing imaginable, the replacement of an incompetent, tyrannical government with the best one ever designed using technology, popularity, convenience, and pure soft power.
Third question: If this was even possible, what would a Convention look like?
First of all, we would broadcast it. Rather than simply relying on the knowledge and intuition of our foremost intellectuals, we could mobilize the intelligence of millions of Americans. We could know what the ever-invoked Will of the People is in unprecedented detail. This convention, if organized and livestreamed, would produce the most democratic Constitution in recorded human history.
Beyond that innovation, I see it as a three-step process.
The first step is Convention Day, a single day where some of the nation’s leading experts educate the American People. Everyone goes to school for a single day and syncs realities. The goal of this step is to cut through decades of misinformation with truth of the highest quality, giving every citizen a foundation of knowledge needed to engage meaningfully with constitutional choices.
The second step is your traditional convention. To minimize the risk of this proposition, I offer a 30,000-word Constitution. It draws heavily from our current constitution, as well as the South African, Swiss, German, Irish, and Scandinavian constitutions, among others. It’s not perfect, and AI did a lot of the language, but it is a start. I do not expect you to read a 100-page document on the basis of this pitch alone, so I made a two-page executive summary that outlines the basic structure and key innovations.
The main argument I’ve heard against this proposal is that delegates would be unfit for such a delicate, consequential task. To minimize that risk, I identified 146 of the nation’s leading constitutional scholars, 34 of the nation’s leading institutional figures, including 7 co-chairs, and 71 international advisors that bring expertise that cannot be found in the American People. They constitute a constitutional dream team.
The third and final step is a democratic referendum. This is the most important step, ensuring that if the convention produces a worse constitution than our current one, it never gets ratified. At present, transitioning governments requires at least 60% approval with at least 50% voter participation. While I have invested considerable time and effort into imagining these first two steps, I have not invested almost anything into this third step. The logistics and details of such a pivotal event is better left to more competent, experienced leaders, such the seven co-chairs I have nominated.
In addition, I have used AI to model a transition plan for actually changing governments if the referendum passes. It has drawn inspiration from the recent constitutional transitions from around the world. It is the least important of the four documents.
Fourth question: What else can you do?
The problems we face are many, huge, growing, and none of them have simple solutions. The thinking and systems that created these huge problems cannot resolve them. With every passing day, our nation grows more polarized, our interest payments increase, our economy becomes more unequal, the dangers posed by our technology accelerate, our political system becomes increasingly corrupt, and our civilization continues polluting the environment and destabilizing the climate. Without addressing our political corruption, we cannot address any of our other systemic crises, and without a Constitutional Convention, we cannot address the corruption of our political system in any meaningful way. Every other option is simply shuffling chairs on a sinking ship that is sailing into the greatest hurricane ever recorded. That is our reality.
So, honestly, ask yourself: what other options do you have right now to address the multiple, interconnected crises we face? Public protest? Voting in midterms a few months from now, or in a Presidential election two years from now? Will protesting on the street or electing individuals from your party heal the culture war? Will it stop the blatant bribing of politicians, the profitability of outrage, or the consolidation of market power across the economy? Will it release the unredacted Epstein files and deliver justice for the victims in those files?
We genuinely need saving and nobody else is proposing a credible plan to save us. Pretending we don’t need saving is willful ignorance, it is ignoring the catastrophic state of the nation and the planet because recognizing it is too distressing and depressing. Denial has become lethal.
We are down by a lot late in the fourth quarter, hail marys are not just rational, they are necessary for our survival.
Fifth: If not now, then when?
This proposal is unique in its moral necessity, legal justification, digital innovation, and extraordinary preparation. The corruption of our government is plain to see and overwhelming to consider, and waiting will not produce a clearer, safer, more democratic opportunity than this one.
Sixth question: If not you, then who?
You, human being, matter. While you may not be a co-chair or a delegate for this convention, your voice and your actions matter enormously. While you may not be an American, your voice and your actions matter. The delegates I have nominated would give almost anything for the opportunity to participate in such a history shaping, legacy defining event, but they cannot do so without the moral legitimacy only you can provide. They will not even see this proposal without your support. You cannot control the future, but you can control yourself right now. You can react. You can make noise. You can tag the delegates. You can share this proposal with your family, friends, and followers. You can check my work and propose language or delegates. I am not looking for blind obedience or cult worship. I am looking for stress testing from every possible perspective. I want your help, your honest feedback, and your public support. I want you to join this team and start fighting for your life.
Seventh: What are you willing to give for this possibility?
You have, for the first time ever, the opportunity to help create a nonviolent, digitized, diplomatic, democratic revolution in the most powerful nation on Earth, for the benefit of all Americans and all Humanity. We can restore our Republic when all hope seemed lost, or we can watch passively as our democracy finishes changing into a kakistocracy, a society where our worst citizens are our most powerful leaders. What is that alternate reality worth to you? Your reputation? Your liberty? Your life?
And finally: just who do I think I am?
I am not a genius. I do not speak for God, nor am I a messiah. I am just a person obsessing over a single question: what is the best thing possible? A livestreamed constitutional convention is my answer to that question. I think this dream represents the single best chance we have at averting the self-destruction of our Union. I choose attempting to create the impossibly beautiful instead of spending the rest of my life wondering if the impossibly beautiful was right there, at my fingertips, and I chose to let it slip through them because of sheer cowardice. I want that impossibly beautiful future more than I have ever wanted anything, and I am willing to look like an idiot to make it possible. Are you?
And so, once more, for the record: Do you want to join the greatest comeback in 250 years of American history?
“I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made... institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.”
Thomas Jefferson
Preamble to the Preamble
These documents are written in pencil, not ink. They are malleable, adjustable, and most importantly, they are real. Do not, do not, and do not treat them like gospel. They are simply a starting point. Subject them to the full force of your intelligence and offer your own authentic, unique perspective. Start with the executive summary, and move on downward document by document, finishing with the draft. Artificial Intelligence was used extensively in drafting these documents and identifying delegates, and the transition plan is entirely AI generated. This draft is roughly 30,000 words, which is far longer than our current Constitution, but well within the range of modern Constitutions. Take it one Article at a time. Take breaks. The language is dry, as needed for a legal document, but it is accessible. The philosophical and political questions it grapples with are nuanced and complex, debated and contested in classrooms and courtrooms around the world. Yet this is our task, the one on which our lives, liberty, and happiness depend, the one openly asking for your contribution. You do not need to be a constitutional law professor, a career lawyer, or an elected politician to contribute. You only need to pick up your own pencil and get to work.
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt