You say you want a revolution

Well...  

A 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.

There doesn't seem to be much there to backstop such a thing. The so-called opposition party can't even defend its somewhat popular health care law from a brazen, secretive, and wholly unpopular move to repeal it.  You could tell them maybe they aren't doing themselves any favors by staking their fortunes on candidates who refuse to defend their stated values. But, as they love to tell you, they are much smarter than you are and certainly know what they are doing.

The 2018 disaster

Democrats should know they are not gonna be able to Ossoff their way through this. Naturally, they have no clue.

It is unclear, however, whether Democratic activists across the country will tolerate an army of Ossoff-type candidates in 2018, when party leaders believe the path to capturing the House runs through purple-hued suburban districts that are somewhat less Republican than Georgia’s Sixth.

Friction has already flared between Democrats heavily invested in Mr. Ossoff’s race and activists closely aligned with Mr. Sanders. In April, Mr. Sanders declined to say if he considered Mr. Ossoff a progressive, causing an uproar that he calmed by urging Mr. Ossoff’s election.

Nina Turner, a former Ohio state senator who is on the board of Mr. Sanders’s political organization, suggested in Chicago that Democrats risked slumbering through the revolution, offering an unofficial slogan for the party: “Hashtag, ‘Not Woke Yet.’”

Probably what will happen (if the polls are to be believe which.. who even knows anymore) is Ossoff will win. The Democrats will assume this means 2018 should be all about entitlement cuts and tax credits for "the Uber of..." the next whatever. Capture the magic, you know.