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Mark Meckler: Amazon Prime show attacks COS

COS: “insecure people who feel threatened by the existence of logical minds.”

Amazon Prime making a TV show blasting Convention of States probably wasn’t on your bingo card. But, alas, here we are.

The show is called Shiny Happy People: A Teenage Holy War, and it’s a sensationalized polemic about an evangelical organization that apparently “radicalized” Christian youth, which takes an unexpected turn into “exposing” the COS grassroots who want to “rewrite the Constitution.”

According to the series’ description, “Teen Mania captivated a generation of fervent evangelical Millennial kids with adrenaline-fueled, ecstatic religious experiences through ‘Acquire the Fire’ rallies. But beneath the glittering surface lurked sadistic boot camps, staged martyrdom drills, and fascism disguised as faith - transforming innocent teens into fanatical soldiers, with devastating consequences still unfolding today.”

Don’t fall for the melodrama. The show, which, to be clear, features precious few shiny happy people, basically rehashes the left’s favorite talking points about Christian nationalists, religious fundamentalists, and radical right-wingers forming an “existential threat to democracy” — a line which actually appears in the show.

You see, when leftists educate schoolchildren about their values, it’s called “progress”; when conservatives do the same, it’s called “fascism disguised as faith.” When the former seek to see their values reflected in politics, that’s called democracy; for the latter, it’s called authoritarianism.

As one interviewee says in the show, “Guess what? All the authoritarian people got together, and they’re coming after you.”

It’s right in the middle of this exposé about a supposedly ominous Christian group from the 90s that Convention of States makes its debut Amazon Prime appearance, described in the most sinister terms imaginable.

According to one review of the show, “Basically these fanatics are insecure people who feel threatened by the existence of logical minds. Today, they want to invoke the Convention of States, a method through which they can amend the constitution. That can only be done if two-thirds of the state legislatures apply to Congress, and the extreme right-wing people do believe that they would be able to make that dream into reality.”

“People who threaten to break the democratic fabric of the nation, need to be stopped, and more importantly, need to be told that nobody is above the constitution,” it adds.

The show never really bothers to explain how that relates to Teen Mania. (To the uninitiated, Convention of States aims to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, impose fiscal restraints, and place term limits on federal officials, none of which sound like very “fanatical” or religious goals.) To be clear, the two organizations have nothing to do with each other. The point, however, is abundantly clear: the American people should fear Convention of States.

But who, really, is afraid?

The radical left fears an Article V convention, not because it threatens to enact fascism in America (to the contrary, we seek to forestall tyranny), but because we’re closing in on their power. And they know it. Despite what the show may insinuate about us, we don’t believe in a top-down approach to government; we believe power should be left as close to home as possible. The left, on the other hand, has been consolidating power in Washington for decades, making true self-governance nearly impossible.

Between the sinister description of COS as an organzation that wants to “shred the Bill of Rights [and] the First Amendment” and footage of non-COS activists carrying torches, it’s clear that Amazon is uninterested in contending with the facts about who we are and would rather erect a strawman narrative about “insecure people who feel threatened by the existence of logical minds.”

In reality, it seems the powers that be feel threatened by us. We’re apparently living rent-free in their heads; we’re over the target. That Amazon would use a hot cultural property to attack us tells you just about everything you need to know.

So, which side will you stand on? The side that views traditional conservative values as a fascist threat to democracy? Or the side that seeks to use the Constitution to restore greater power to the American people, regardless of their religious or political backgrounds?

The real threat lies not in the hands of “We the People,” but within the grasp of an elite establishment in a far-distant capital seeking to control our lives. Rest assured, my friends, the second group knows its days are numbered.

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Created:	2025-07-24 14:35 GMT
Updated:	2025-07-31 07:00 GMT
Published:	2025-07-24 14:00 GMT
Converted:	2025-11-11 12:06 GMT
Change Author:	Jakob Fay
Credit Author:	Mark Meckler