Of course, Soros never gets the kind of criticism his counterparts, the Koch Brothers, get from the liberal media:
Liberal billionaire George Soros has accepted a position on the
National Finance Council of the Ready For Hillary Super PAC, a group
paving the way for a 2016 presidential run for the former first lady.
Soros, 83, has long been a monetary influence behind liberal politics,
but this is the first time he has accepted a formal role on an American
political campaign. Soros has a long history of funding liberals and
attacking conservatives, and spent more than $27.5 million trying to defeat President George W. Bush in 2004, including funding such groups as MoveOn.org.
The Washington Post
article on this recent announcement referred to Soros as a “billionaire
investor, philanthropist and backer of liberal causes,” but this
significantly understates Soros’ position and influence. With a
political philosophy so far left that it borders on Orwellian, Soros has
had an incredible amount of influence in liberal politics through the
generous endowments from his Open Society Foundations.
To give a good measure of the Soros move, the liberal Huffington Post led its front page with the headline: “SOROS IS IN!” immediately following the announcement.
Soros political director Michael Vachon said that his boss’s support
for the PAC “is an extension of his long-held belief in the power of
grassroots organizing.” But there’s nothing “grassroots” about Soros.
Soros has given a total of $550 million
to liberal causes between 2000 and 2009. Since launching his Open
Society Foundations in 1984, Soros has donated more than $8 billion to
nonprofits around the world.
According to OpenSecrets.org,
Soros spent $2,775,000 supporting liberals in the 2012 election alone,
just through his personal donations. OpenSecrets.org is a project of the
Soros-funded Center for Responsive Politics, which has received
$550,000 from Soros’ Open Society Foundations since 2000. He was “was an
early supporter of Barack Obama, first in his Senate campaign in
Illinois and later when he ran for president,” according to his
foundations.
Soros’ political views are far left, even for most liberals. He has
funded pro-abortion groups, pro-gay marriage organizations, anti-Israel
and radical environmental groups. He has extensively promoted his idea
of an “open society,” although even he admitted that it won’t end well.
Soros said: “in an open society none of the existing ties are final,
and people's relation to nation, family, and their fellows depends
entirely on their own decisions. Looking at the reverse side of the
coin, this means that the permanence of social relationships has
disappeared; the organic structure of society has disintegrated to the
point where its atoms, the individuals, float around without hindrance.”
And from there, the description got worse. “Choices arise which would
not even have been imagined in an earlier age. Euthanasia, genetic
engineering, brainwashing become problems of practical importance. The
most complex human functions, such as thinking, may be broken down into
their elements and artificially reproduced. Everything appears possible
until it has been proven to be impossible.”
On top of joining the PAC, Soros has already pledged $25,000 to Ready For Hillary to date. Hillary Clinton herself has not formally declared that she is running for election in 2016.
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