The John Birch Society is mildly up in arms over some "gathering of the states", or somesuch, that other far righties are holding even as this is being written. They call themselves "The Mount Vernon Assembly", and they've rented the old George Washington Estate today to talk about having a meeting next spring to hammer out a set of rules that they can use in their (semi private?) Constitutional Convention (or Article V Convention in their parlance) to be held as soon as they can figure out how. (Kind of a mouthful, so I apologize.)
Anyway, there have been a couple of mentions on Dkos over the last little while about the possibility of ALEC using a process like this to steal the nation. The ALEC code word for this part of their agenda appears to be "limited representative government". And the John Birch Society, believe it or not, is concerned about ALEC involvement in The Mount Vernon Assembly. A matter of professional jealousy, I think, because JBS seems to have settled on a strategy called "Nullification" that they think they and theirs can use to, basically, steal the nation. (Much of this is spelled out in an article in yesterdays issue of "The New American".)
Then a thought occured to me. Since all of this is being done under the radar, ALEC, The Mount Vernon Assemby, and The John Birch Society obviously must have no confidence in a "fully representational" scenario. That is, all over on that particular fringe Right Wing turf fear Democracy, fear the majority. Meaning they fear us. No matter all of the bravado coming from The Tea Party, etc. they fear Progressives because their research, their analysis says that they just plain cannot compete against us openly.
So they'll go to Mount Vernon on Pearl Harbor day, and plot and scheme. But, mainly, they hope they can keep doing these kinds of things without the average voter ever noticing. The far right wing seems to be a pretty lonely place, and that should be something that organized Progressives should be able to take advantage of.