Soros predicts "riots in the streets", "brutal clampdown" - is he foreshadowing a second 0bama term?

From an article in The Daily Beast:


“At times like these, survival is the most important thing,” he [Soros] says, peering through his owlish glasses and brushing wisps of gray hair off his forehead. He doesn’t just mean it’s time to protect your assets. He means it’s time to stave off disaster. As he sees it, the world faces one of the most dangerous periods of modern history—a period of “evil.” Europe is confronting a descent into chaos and conflict. In America he predicts riots on the streets that will lead to a brutal clampdown that will dramatically curtail civil liberties (emphasis added) The global economic system could even collapse altogether.

“I am not here to cheer you up. The situation is about as serious and difficult as I’ve experienced in my career,” Soros tells Newsweek. “We are facing an extremely difficult time, comparable in many ways to the 1930s, the Great Depression. We are facing now a general retrenchment in the developed world, which threatens to put us in a decade of more stagnation, or worse. The best-case scenario is a deflationary environment. The worst-case scenario is a collapse of the financial system.”

So what is Soros up to? Is he simply predicting what will happen under a second 0bama administration? Or is the convicted inside trader shorting everything in sight and attempting to manipulate the markets with this gloom & doom talk?