{"id":915,"date":"2003-11-24T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-24T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/george-soros-funds-democracy-in-the-us\/"},"modified":"2003-11-24T14:14:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-24T21:14:00","slug":"george-soros-funds-democracy-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/george-soros-funds-democracy-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"George Soros funds democracy in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"washingtonpost.com: Soros's Deep Pockets vs. Bush\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn\/A24179-2003Nov10?language=printer\">Soros&#8217;s Deep Pockets vs. Bush<\/a> By Laura Blumenfeld, Washington Post Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>George Soros, one of the world&#8217;s richest men, has given away nearly $5 billion to promote democracy in the former Soviet bloc, Africa and Asia. Now he has a new project: defeating President Bush.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;It is the central focus of my life,&#8221; Soros said, his blue eyes settled on an unseen target. The 2004 presidential race, he said in an interview, is &#8221;a matter of life and death.&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<b>America, under Bush, is a danger to the world<\/b>,&#8221; Soros said. Then he smiled: &#8220;And I&#8217;m willing to put my money where my mouth is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Soros believes that a &#8220;<b>supremacist ideology<\/b>&#8221; guides this White House. He hears echoes in its rhetoric of his childhood in occupied Hungary. &#8220;When I hear Bush say, &#8216;You&#8217;re either with us or against us,&#8217; it reminds me of the Germans.&#8221; It conjures up memories, he said, of Nazi slogans on the walls&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Soros has grown alarmed at the influence of <b>neoconservatives, whom he calls &#8220;a bunch of extremists guided by a crude form of social Darwinism.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Neoconservatives, Soros said, are exploiting the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to promote a preexisting agenda of preemptive war and world dominion. &#8220;<b>Bush feels that on September 11th he was anointed by God<\/b>,&#8221; Soros said. &#8220;He&#8217;s leading the U.S. and the world toward a vicious circle of escalating violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See also:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/blogs\/archives\/00000307.htm\">mjh&#8217;s Weblog Entry &#8211; 09\/15\/2003: &#8220;NOW: Transcript: George Soros interview PBS&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Republican Party has been captured by a bunch of extremists.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soros&#8217;s Deep Pockets vs. Bush By Laura Blumenfeld, Washington Post Staff Writer George Soros, one of the world&#8217;s richest men, has given away nearly $5 billion to promote democracy in the former Soviet bloc, Africa and Asia. Now he has a new project: defeating President Bush. &#8221;It is the central focus of my life,&#8221; Soros &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/george-soros-funds-democracy-in-the-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">George Soros funds democracy in the US<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}