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Is Repug bufoonery the distraction for skulduggery? Article V convention. [1]

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Date: 2023-02-06  

Soon to be 'We the 1%'?

The clown show that features the antics of the House majority, the Governor of Florida and his cohorts in the Florida Legislature, not to mention in many other rings of the RWNJ circus (political bodies across the nation) — is that all a distraction to divert attention away from a serious threat to the Constitution of the U.S. as currently established, divert attention away from progress toward calling an Article V convention to ‘improve’ the Constitution?

Though I suppose this question could be characterized as a conspiracy theory — many bad actors working together to achieve their ultimate goal, a ‘legitimized’ coup establishing an authoritarian pro-oligarch government in the U.S. — unlike the conspiracy theories promoted by the far right, it doesn’t require suspension of logic to tie together RWNJ activities engendering derision, disbelief, and outrage among those to the left of the current Republican Party. On this website, there are many, many multiples of reports not only on the principal performers: MTG, Gym, the Jan 6 insurrectionists, tfg and his associates, DeSantis, Gaetz, Cancun Cruz, and more, but also the run-of-the-mill (apparent) dimwits like Goehmert, ‘Mr.’ Santos, Gov. Abbott, et al. et al, et al. Entertaining and infuriating reading for sure, but how many here are missing the danger presented by the calls for the Article V Convention of States, as a result of focussing on those reports, as ‘amusing’ as some of them might be?

If you have not heard of this threat, here are three citations. One is from Common Cause , a group acting to protect the current Constitution (I’m including a bit of text from their website), one from the folks attempting the under-the-table coup and their stellar crew of ‘notables’, and one from a mainstream newspaper in Charlotte, North Carolina (does not appear to have a paywall).

Common Cause :

“A handful of wealthy special interest groups are just a few states away from calling a new constitutional convention. Under Article V of the Constitution, Congress is required to convene a constitutional convention if two-thirds of state legislatures (34 states) call for one.

No convention has ever been called under Article V for a reason: there is just too much at stake.” ….. Common Cause

Charlotte Observer

“A growing political movement aims to rewrite the U.S. Constitution…..”

Convention of States Action

endorsed by these ‘notables’: Ron DeSantis, Allen West, Rand Paul ,

Ben Shapiro who says

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