Inside Steve Bannon's 'disturbing' quest to radically rewrite the US constitution

[Gaugamela]

Mark Meckler, a founder of the Tea Party who now leads one of the largest groups advocating for the tactic, the Convention of States Action (Cosa), spelled out some of the prime objectives on Bannon’s show. “We need to say constitutionally, ‘No, the federal government cannot be involved in education, or healthcare, or energy, or the environment’,” he said.

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We’ve already seen a [Republican] willingness to play fast and loose with the math on all sorts of things in Congress,” Super said. “I would not be surprised if they were to make a serious attempt to adopt one of these bizarre accounting theories should they take control of both chambers in November.”

That could mean a rapid dash for a convention before most Americans would have woken up to the danger.

“If the Republicans prevail in Congress, they could try to call a convention right away,” Feingold said. “People should know that when they go to vote in November – this could fundamentally undermine their rights in a way that is both disturbing and permanent.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/19/steve-bannon-us-constitution-tea-party-republican-state-legislatures

This is not a grassroots movement, but rather a coordinated attempt at takeover by radical extremist billionaires. By dismantling the “administrative state” they will Balkanize America and create regional fiefdoms run by oligarchs and mafia dons. It’s capitalism gone to seed. If these billionaires succeed there will be no way out except complete societal collapse, which their laws and policies will inevitably precipitate.

[Phoenix61]

1. It's people who watched what Putin did and thought, Yes!

That’s what I want as they are betting on being one of the oligarchs. As usual they are short sighted and have failed to see they could just as easily become the one falling out a window.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. It became clear to me that this was and is the Pig's goal.

He wanted to be Putin in the US. It would the next level of money and power needed to feed his malignant narcissism.