So, the fact that Soros supports an Article V convention then must make him a conservative! Who knew?
This premise is false. Worse, I see not a single supporting evidentiary link in the piece. You can do better.
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.