You’re an intelligent person and I find it uncharacteristic of you to be unable to grasp the context in which Soros made his statements.
Soros fears the Article V movement in the United States. His statements were trumpeted calls to the liberal base that he stands willing to direct funds to Article V ***counterrevolutionary*** efforts.
The problem Soros finds is he is, for the moment, outgunned by the sheer numbers of conservatives on the ground. No doubt he will have his people continue studying ways to impeded conservative success using Article V, or in the alternative ....
he will call for Constitutional Amendments that may gain popular appeal using subliminal language but hiding a liberal agenda. This is nothing new.
One amendment that on the surface appears ***emotionally*** resonating is one that Soros supports and advanced by Schumer, calling for an amendment to regulate campaign spending.
https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/sjres19/BILLS-113sjres19rs.pdf
“Defending corporations and billionaires “is no winning position” so Cruz has framed his case as if Democrats are trying to repeal the First Amendment, Schumer and Deutch wrote.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Schumer-Cruz-free-speech/2014/07/17/id/583179
The above attack on ‘billionaire bogeymen’ is designed as just another class warfare tactic to appeal to voters who are to be frightened into believing that the ultra wealthy are stealing elections and the solution is to give Congress the Constitutional power to control it.
Of course Ted Cruz called them on it.
Soros’ bid to get liberals into the Article V game has failed. Liberals looking at the sheer areas and numbers they must cover enables them to write funding plans to Soros’ people but they cannot complete the sections of how the plan can be executed to success. That is because contrary to their thinking, Americans of rural areas tend to be smarter than their city dwelling counterparts. And rural areas are where conservatives vest their energy and strength in raising a successful Article V campaign.
In other words, it’s not possible to buy out the Article V movement. Rural populations are too independent.
But there is recourse for Soros and his network as to Article V. If he and his can’t bribe, coerce or connive the existing rural base, they can import their own which is happening now under the guise of Executive Amnesty. A few communities are up in arms about the recent ‘newcomers’ that have been settled into their towns and county areas. They see that they are now suddenly on the frontlines of a larger fight.
And what makes you think he wouldn't do that?
The problem Soros finds is he is, for the moment, outgunned by the sheer numbers of conservatives on the ground.
Whilst the conservatives are outgunned by the sheer number of brainwashed idiots from public schools and hungry takers flooding over the borders. There are enough States dominated by Marxist politics that the kind of changes you or I would prefer would never be ratified.
The above attack on ‘billionaire bogeymen’ is designed as just another class warfare tactic to appeal to voters who are to be frightened into believing that the ultra wealthy are stealing elections and the solution is to give Congress the Constitutional power to control it.
Of course Ted Cruz called them on it.
How big is his megaphone?
In other words, it’s not possible to buy out the Article V movement. Rural populations are too independent.
It's not the liberals I fear as much as it is our creditors, namely, the people who fund liberal causes in the first place.
If he and his can’t bribe, coerce or connive the existing rural base, they can import their own which is happening now under the guise of Executive Amnesty.
To my mind, for the most part that's already happened. But then, I live in California. You will note where Commander Xero is trying to deliver those busloads.
If you take a good hard look at rural counties in America, many have had their resource industries hollowed out to the point that the governing bureaucrats and the welfare/meth-head dependencies they produced outnumber said conservative landowner base. Considerably. Witness Montana as a Democrat dominated State. It really would not take that much to do the same to Idaho, Arizona, or finish off the job in New Mexico.
BTW, as to what I mean by “our creditors” I want you to think of what would happen to the Federal budget if they decided to change their minds at the next bond auction.