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Title: Convention of States: Unshakeable Citizenry

Original CoS Document (slug): [[https://conventionofstates.com/convention-of-states-unshakeable-citizenry|convention-of-states-unshakeable-citizenry]]

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Created: 2022-10-07 20:20:57

Updated: 2024-03-05 14:18:17

Published: 2022-10-10 02:00:00

Converted: 2025-04-14T21:19:58.261403861


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Regardless of the outcomes in the nationwide elections, Convention of States volunteers have hope afterwards. We don’t place our hope and salvation on people who win elections. We don’t hope in government at all. We place our hope in God and we challenge and govern ourselves.\\
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What’s so sad about what we’re seeing on TV and what is bleeding into the culture is the worship of political figures and elected officials. It goes both ways. People are obsessed with worshipping them or they’re obsessed with hating them.\\
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The hate is with such a fury. It’s like hating a movie and not understanding why everybody in the country doesn’t hate the movie as much as you do. Then it’s like watching that movie over and over again every day for years. Then it’s going out and hating and condemning everybody who likes the movie. That’s insanity.\\
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On the other side of that, worshipping an elected government leader or officials and seeing them as your savior is just as nutty. If they don’t get elected, you have no joy. All hope is lost and without them in office, the whole world will collapse and zing out of the galaxy.\\
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The problem about the extremism in government worship is everybody on their team has to win and everybody on their enemy’s team has to lose. Not just once but every single election, forever.\\
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These illusions are not sustainable. The participants are setting themselves up for endless gloom and doom. They’ll have very few moments of euphoria and many exhausting decades of disappointment, disgust, self-righteous confusion, and chaos.\\
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You should vote. You should vote for local and national politicians, judges and council people that will support the fundamentals of our U.S. Constitution and all of the other issues you value. You shouldn’t allow anybody to shame you or scare you into submission to vote their values instead of your own.\\
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After that, when the election is over, it’s over. If there’s no sunshine in your life the next morning, regardless of the outcomes, you need to evaluate what you’re living for. If you don’t, you’re shackled to a cactus in the desert forever.\\
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This is why Convention of States is such a great organization. It’s an organization of volunteers who have things to do for their families, their communities and their nation.  \\
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Regardless of who gets elected, we’ll be contacting our state senators and representatives. We’ll be educating them about Article V. We’ll describe to them our three objectives: term limits on federal officials, limit the power and jurisdiction of federal government, and imposing fiscal restraints.\\
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We’ll be meeting new volunteers. We’ll see their relief and excitement as they learn they’re not alone in their concern for their children’s and grand children’s futures.  \\
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We’ll wait to witness the 20th state in the union pass the Convention of States application in both chambers. It’s something worth waiting for.  \\
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We’ll be doing follow ups, writing up success stories, gathering and strategizing. We’ll be learning from one another, learning from COSU, going to Zoom meetings, leading Zoom meetings and finding new ways to spread the message that there’s hope for liberty.  There’s hope for the rulership of the People over the federal government through a Convention of States.\\
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Citizenry starts with you. Acts of citizenry start in the household by securing the necessities of life for your loved ones.

Then it works its way out into the neighborhood by respecting boundaries and keeping the peace.

Then citizenry moves out into the market places by taking turns, coping with large groups of people with kindness and patience.

Then it works its way out to the institutions by interacting and collaborating with bosses, employees, teachers, coaches, co-workers, customers and clients.

Then, finally, it makes its way out to our government through voting, contacting legislators and gathering to influence policy with courtesy and thoughtfulness.

It’s not what’s barking out of your television from highly paid soothsayers 24 hours a day. Granted, watching is entertaining, even necessary, to be aware of what’s happening in the world- but it’s not our lives.  \\
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Get involved with Convention of States. Get to know people in your community and across your state who have the same mission that you do: to win our country back for our kids. Let’s enjoy our lives. Let’s do it together.