A Trump-backing billionaire movement is dangerously close to calling a Constitutional Convention

[UCmeNdc]

To make Trump a Dictator?

billionaire-backed “movement” is dangerously close to calling a constitutional convention of states under Article V of the U.S. Constitution. If realized, it would be the first constitutional convention since the 1787 Philadelphia Convention, which replaced the Articles of Confederation with the U.S. Constitution.

After an active start to 2017, proponents are now allegedly seven states away from reaching the needed 34 states (two-thirds) to convene a convention. According to Article V, which lays out all the ways the constitution can be amended, any amendments proposed by the convention would then need to be ratified by 38 (three-fourths) of the states.

Analysis of email blasts from proponents and a new op-ed shows that an emboldened group of paid pro-convention campaigners are advocating for a convention to go far beyond its professed purpose of passing a Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA). Their proposals include the creation of a national identification card.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/a-trump-backing-billionaire-movement-is-dangerously-close-to-calling-a-constitutional-convention/

[AngryAmish]

1. Anything that gets the Deplorables out of my country is fine by me.

[Vinca]

2. If they go to all that trouble, forget amending the Constitution, just split the country up.

Let the hatemongers live amongst themselves and enjoy life without all the perks (like seeing a doctor, food stamps if you're hungry, Social Security in old age, etc.).

[SoCalNative]

3. I'm sure that their intentions are far more insidious

but I honestly do not have an issue with a national ID card. It's SOP most other places in the world.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

4. I saw this today...

You beat me posting. I'm kinda unsure as to exactly what this could mean. Some of what I was reading is not good at all.

The BBA could be a direct route to gutting most of our social services from what I could deduce.
That's just one thing.

Not too clear on what a "runaway" convention means or could do but it didn't sound very encouraging for the preservation of our Constitution.

Guess while we are all watching the shitstorm of trump, which may be a diversionary tactic, our eyes and minds are off the possible destruction of our Constitution.

Although with all the hurdles it would take to make this a reality, they do have the money and structures in place to make it very uncomfortable.