How George Soros Destroyed The Democratic Party
In 2016, Republicans control both legislative chambers in 32 states. That’s up from 16 in 2000.
What happened to the big donkey? Among other things, the Democrats decided to sell their base and their soul to a very bad billionaire and they got a very bad deal for both.
It was 2004... a former Nazi collaborator had bought the Democrat Party using the spare change in his sofa cushions.
And gone to war against the will of the people. This was what he modestly called his own “Soros Doctrine”.
“It is the central focus of my life,” George Soros declared. It was “a matter of life and death.” He vowed that he would become poor if it meant defeating the President of the United States...
Money poured into the fringe organizations of the left like MoveOn, which had moved on from a petition site to a PAC. In 2004, Soros was its biggest donor. He didn’t manage to bring down Bush, but he helped buy the Democratic Party as a toy for his yowling dorm room of left-wing activists to play with.
Soros hasn’t had a great track record at buying presidential elections. The official $25 million he poured into this one bought him his worst defeat since 2004. But his money did transform the Democrat Party.
And killed it.
Next year the Democracy Alliance was born. A muddy river of cash from Soros and his pals flowed into the organizations of the left. Soros had helped turn Howard Dean, a Vermont politician once as obscure as this cycle’s radical Vermont Socialist, into a contender and a national figure. Dean didn’t get the nomination, but he did get to remake the DNC. Podesta’s Center for American Progress swung the Democrats even further to the left. And it would be Podesta who helped bring Hillary down.
The Democrats became a radical left-wing organization and unviable as a national political party. The Party of Jefferson had become the Party of Soros. And only one of those was up on Mount Rushmore.
Obama’s wins concealed the scale and scope of the disaster. Then the party woke up after Obama to realize that it had lost its old bases in the South and the Rust Belt. The left had hollowed it out and transformed it into a party of coastal urban elites, angry college crybullies and minority coalitions...
The left had recreated the Democrat Party and marginalized it. Much of this disaster had been funded with Soros money. Like many a theatrical villain, the old monster had been undone by his own hubris. Had Soros aided the Democrats without trying to control them, he would have gained a seat at the table in a national party. Instead he spent a fortune destroying the very thing he was trying to control...
Trump’s victory, like Brexit, came because the left had left the white working class behind. Its vision of the future as glamorous multicultural city states was overturned in a single night. The idea that Soros had committed so much power and wealth to was of a struggle between populist nationalists and responsible internationalists...
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No Mr. Soros, America Needs Defending, Moses Apostaticus, Daily Caller, January 3, 2017:
As I outlined in a previous op-ed piece published by The Daily Caller, Mr. Soros’ open society ideology is a front for neo-Marxism. When Mr. Soros uses the word democracy, he is referring to a different concept to what most Americans would think of. In Mr. Soros’ mind, an open, democratic society is one without any distinctions of ethnicity, culture, belief or faith. It is populated by people with no identity outside that provided by their economic function. The open society which Mr. Soros is referring to is a borderless society which has, culturally and racially, been put through a blender to make every person in it the same as every other. On the heights down from which Mr. Soros views society, this is utopia.
To those of us who have not drunk the Marxist Kool Aid, this is an abomination. Like all Marxist ideologies, it is a utopian delusion which provides a cover for the totalitarian re-engineering of society to serve the interests of a tiny ruling elite. It’s a useful myth for oligarchs like Mr. Soros to control the political process and play chess with the lives of millions.
In Mr. Soros’ essay, democracy and the open society are treated as synonymous. If his neo-Marxist agenda then is being rejected by the American people, American democracy is in crisis. This reveals the lie at the heart of Mr. Soros’ thinking. The open society agenda is not being driven by the popular will. It has nothing to do with democracy, freedom or any other buzzword that Mr. Soros’ foot-soldiers chant during their violent protests. It is a plan being implemented from the top down to serve the interests of the globalist oligarchy...
Even the term ‘globalization’ itself is propaganda. What Mr. Soros is actually referring to is the deindustrialization of Western nations and the handing-over of their productive capacity, and thus their wealth-generation capabilities, to nations such as China. For American workers across what is now the rust belt, globalization was not a glitch. It has been an unmitigated catastrophe and a betrayal of America...
Hungary To Launch Crackdown On All George Soros-Funded Organizations, by Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge, January 10, 2017.