Making sense of George Soros- final chapter
They call it the Open Society
The entire history of George Soros is worth understanding to help make sense of the chaos and conflict which has become part of everyday life in America 2022. Yet for brevity we will only hit a few of the more egregiously destructive policies he has encouraged to foment civil tension and stress. In essence, if you can take away the sense of peace, the safety and security of daily life in a society, you are on your way to upheaval. This is the current playbook for America as designed by Soros and his like-minded brethren across the elites of Europe, America, and the Chinese Communist Party.
Leaving Hungary after the war, Soros headed to London in 1947 for schooling, moved to New York in 1956, and opened Soros Fund Management in 1970. This is the source of his billions in net worth, $32 billion of which he has pledged to his primary philanthropic entity, the Open Society Foundations. These foundations describe themselves thusly- “The Open Society Foundations (OSF), founded by George Soros, are the world’s largest private funder of independent groups working for justice, democratic governance, and human rights…” Largest in the fact they give away roughly $1 billion per year in various programs around the world. Soros is brilliant, cunning, and deeply effective in his methods, which include obfuscation and conflicting public statements to throw people off the scent of his trail. He is worlds above the more crude and direct attackers of American traditions you see daily in the streets, many of whom he also funds. His ability to remain somewhat obscured is his greatest strength, for his policies are so corrosive it would be difficult to believe Americans would tolerate them were they more transparent.
Soros and his Open Society Foundations object at their core to ‘closed societies.’ What is a closed society you may ask? A closed society as defined by Soros is one with managed borders that are supervised, with laws and customs unique to that sovereign. That is a closed society in his mind, one that hinders mankind’s development. After the fall of the hated Soviet Union, he has described American exceptionalism and American supremacy as the most dangerous forces for the world at large. A world with a unique and strong America is the worst thing imaginable to Soros. It is a view shared by many of his European peers, sclerotic and weary of living under America’s security umbrella and shadow, and now the rise of Asia. Of course, this view has natural allies in our actual enemies such as China, Russia, and Iran, but Europe are supposed to be our friends. Sadly, as Europe slithers towards its own unraveling, they are not going down with dignity.
Starting in Eastern Europe
Soros’ philanthropic efforts began in his native Eastern Europe in the early 1980s. He opened foundation offices in Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria. It was here he learned that relatively modest amounts of money could have profound impact on small distinct entities, such as closed societies in Eastern Europe. Giving behind the scenes in lesser sovereigns could hold enormous sway. When you have access to a nation’s leaders, you gain great power. It seems ironic that today he is not welcomed in Hungary at all nor in many neighboring countries, accused of meddling unduly in sovereign affairs.
At the conclusion of the Cold War, he set his sights across the Atlantic on the great American hegemon. He developed a relationship with Strobe Talbott, an Oxford roommate of President Clinton and his Deputy Secretary of State from 1994 to 2001. This gave Soros the access to the upper echelon of the Democrat Party power structure. Since this time, sadly, his efforts in America have come across as far more partisan in nature than the benevolent unbiased equality which he advertises.
Racially divide and conquer
As we assess the situation in America today, one cannot help but be greatly disheartened by the sense our race relationships have deteriorated in the last 15 years. There is no organic reason for this to occur. Given we elected our first African American President in 2008, there was an expectation that it would be a significant achievement on America’s path of improvement, ushering in a new higher level of acceptance and understanding by all that a person’s character is what matters in America. Yet it has led to the opposite. We seem to have greater racial animus now than before President Obama’s two terms. Why? What has led us on the path of new racial division which only adds tension and anger to the disagreements a society has along the way?
Some may point to a major inflection as the Ferguson Effect, which refers to the racial violence and protests that broke out in Ferguson, Missouri on 9 August 2014, after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer. The OSF sent nearly $33 million that year to existing activist groups which gave rise to a combustible protest movement that transformed a one-day criminal event into a 24-hour-a-day national cause celebre. Soros-sponsored organizations helped mobilize protests in Ferguson, building grass-roots coalitions on the ground backed by a nationwide online and social media campaign.
The Soros cash was put to work driving buzzwords and social media campaigns to propel Ferguson into the national consciousness. One recipient of his funding is the Organization for Black Struggle, which in turn established a group called the Hands Up Coalition, which helped make ubiquitous the 'hands up, don't shoot' slogan. This slogan was disproven in the criminal trial which acquitted the officer involved in Brown’s shooting but was the focal point of the Ferguson protest movement.
In 2016 hacked documents from the OSF revealed substantial contributions for support and technical assistance to the core groups of the burgeoning Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. By the time of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis in May 2020 at the outset of the Covid 19 pandemic pressures, BLM had grown into the flashpoint organization for the violence and riots that took place across the country that summer. Tens of millions of Soros dollars went towards fomenting distrust and disharmony between Americans for the purpose of chaos and unease. The next step would be to discourage prosecution of rising crime in the interests of social and racial justice.
The Soros DA’s
After his successful experience influencing Eastern European nations during the final days of the Cold War and beyond, Soros realized he could use the same strategy to significant effect here. Here in the U.S., federal campaign finance limitations do not apply to local races. Some states have rules in place designed to prevent individual influence, but Political Action Committees set up by Soros with names such as “Justice and Safety” are used to circumvent individual limits.
Soros recognized the concept of ‘prosecutorial discretion’ could be used by District Attorneys to selectively enforce laws. Spending relatively modest amounts by national standards on DA races in important cities could determine how laws are enforced. Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner, Chicago DA Kim Foxx, St Louis DA Kim Gardner, Chesa Boudin, recently recalled in San Francisco, George Gascon in LA, Alvin Bragg in New York, and John Chisholm in Milwaukee were all on the Soros money list. Each of these winners was able to overwhelm their local opposition financially, leaving crime-friendly District Attorneys in charge of law enforcement in major cities across America.
This breakdown in prosecutions has led to rising violence and sharp increases in crime across the spectrum which need not be chronicled here. Smash and grab robberies, multiple thefts by groups of repeat offenders unafraid of police, and open season on law abiding citizens has created a sense of lawlessness and 1880s cowboy mentality that is simply unimaginable. Thankfully to this point, the rising lawlessness is mostly confined to these big cities with Soros DA’s. But Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, St Louis, Philadelphia, and New York City have all declined to lesser shadows of their former selves. It is escalating now to regular conflicts between suspects and police where brawling, resisting, and attacking law enforcement officers is more common. When you release perpetrators back to the streets the next day, you have a citizen now multiple times more likely to commit more crimes. How does this make sense? On what planet do law-abiding citizens support this?
We can only hope that the recent recall of San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin and the increasingly likely recall of George Gascon in Los Angeles are signs the pendulum is swinging back to sanity where crime brings consequences once more. It seems the pressures may be rising on Mr. Soros in this area as he penned an op-ed to the Wall Street Journal this weekend entitled “Why I Support Reform Prosecutors.” It was surprisingly unpersuasive in its defense of the policy, acting as if these policies enjoy broad support, rather than its beneficiaries now in the process of being recalled by the people in horror. He’s on the defensive.
Open borders and teaching distrust round out the plan
Opening the southern border is another part of the ‘bring down the USA’ strategy, and Soros has long supported and backed organizations advocating for open admissions to the country and quick and easy paths to citizenship. Does the US owe it to the rest of the world to let them all in? Or does the US owe it to its citizens to uphold the foundational principles of our Republic while trying to be a beacon of light for the rest of the world to follow?
There are reasons people from all over the world are risking their lives to journey to the US- Mexico border in the hope of gaining admission to the land of opportunity. Would they be rushing to get in if we were an inherently racist, bigoted home to haters and white supremacists? Do you think that is what those striving to get here see? They are coming for the better chance of a meaningful life here in America, which makes it so important that we maintain the course others may emulate. As flawed as we are, we are the light of hope for billions of those in less attractive systems. We need raise them up, not bring ourselves down.
To indoctrinate American children early on, Soros-backed organizations have been helping to inject Critical Race Theory into our schools beginning at the earliest ages. Teaching our children to judge one another on their appearance, to be suspicious, distrustful. They wish to transfer all the sins of the past onto our present, stifling progress, creating friction and pain. The US military is inserting racial sensitivity training and other social justice responsibilities into the combat units of our front-line soldiers. It has become an all-out assault on our social fabric and the cohesiveness necessary for a thriving nation.
Our division is not organic, but orchestrated
It is helpful and somewhat encouraging that the rage and divisiveness permeating our society today is not a naturally occurring organic matter. It is a carefully planned, funded and orchestrated attempt to bring down our country, to end its reign of exceptionalism and bring a uniform social structure across the globe, with a layer of entitled elites at the top, making decisions for the rest of us. The opposite of the American principles of individual responsibility, opportunity, ownership and incentives which bring out the best in people. This is worth preserving, worth fighting for.