The problem with an Article V Convention is that such a Convention is not bound or limited in any way to the issue that the Convention is called for. Such a Convention can literally rewrite any part of the Constitution it chooses. It's an enormous amount of power, and something to be approached as only the very last resort. While the current situation is very bad, I'm not sure that it has reached that point yet.

You miss the point. Bruce doesn't state that the self-employed are more or less likely to vote in any particular fashion. Bruce states that the explosion of small businesses will move money away from mega-corps, diminishing their budgets and the large donations that they can then make toward Republican elections. That is what they fear. I'm not sure that he's right but that seems to me to be what he's saying.

"Majority rule, minority rights"

Too many people forget the second part. That's what avoids the tyranny of the majority. The majority can make whatever laws they want, so long as those laws don't infringe on the rights of a minority. For example, in the US, no majority can pass a law that legalizes slavery, as that violates the rights of minorities.

All too often I see US citizens squawking about "majority rule!" when the courts uphold the rights of a minority. They should know better; without minority rights, they would be the next to suffer the tyranny of the majority.

This is interesting, but I have another, similar question:

I've read that the easiest words to type on a QWERTY keyboard are those whose letters alternate between the left and right hand. I'd like a list of words like that, ideally longer ones that I could use for passwords. However, I can't think of a simple (or even complex) grep command that would find those.