WATCH: The 60 Minutes Interview George Soros Tried To Bury

In the 60 Minutes piece Soros’ clearly states he does not believe in God, yet in an NYT article* his son contradicts this by saying his father believes in Judaism. Did Soros have a change of heart or is this simply expedient? What’s more, Soros characterizes himself in the pice as not being very Left-leaning at all, and even remarks that the Left has moved further Left leaving him as a member of an ideological “nonclub”. Isn’t he self-disclosing, in effect, that for whatever motives people attribute to his philanthropy — typically liberal — that they are wrong because he has, instead, an entirely different set of reasons for the social agenda he supports?

Take, as an example, his stated reason for supporting Open Societies. In the article, he says Jews — despite having their own State since 1948 — don’t have a place in any society in which there exists nationalism. That’s a rather curious thing to say in a day-and-age when very few countries in the West are racially/culturally homogenous. It’s not as if Western democracies were running their countries like Japan, where almost no immigration/naturalization is allowed and the racial makeup (and thus potential for race-based nationalism remains static). To the contrary, we have a long, pluralistic history in the United States, which would make it ill-suited for the kind of militant isolationism Soros appears to fear when he refers to “nationalists”. And yet he seems to be motivated by this idea that whatever plurality and tolerance we have achieved, it is not nearly enough. Where has he been for the past 75 years? To further break down barriers (borders) suggests that we remain mired in some pre-war isolationist or at the very least are in imminent danger of returning to such a state. In the EU, on the other hand, doesn’t it give Soros pause to observe that the end result of his aggressive effort to promote migration has been, instead, a reflexive rise in nationalism? For a financier at Soros’ level there is something incredibly out of sync about the fact that he remains oblivious to the fact that his aims to push for still more “openness” — as if to suggest there is some shortage of goodwill/diversity within some of the oldest Democracies in the world — has created exactly its opposite: the desire to close down and shut out. Openness? By what stretch of his imagination has his efforts produced any? (If anything, it’s set us on a path backward for which the evidence is the increasingly bizarre preoccupation the national media has with all things racist, nationalist and xenophobic about the very same Country that liberated holocaust survivors from German Nazi concentration camps!)

As someone who witnessed firsthand what the Nazis attempted to do through the mechanisms of propaganda and repression, the fact that Soros has lived long enough to witness the resurgence of the Extreme Right should tell him that something isn’t working about “manufacturing” the pace of social change via mass, unchecked migration. Americans and many European countries were perfectly willing to allow for immigration and equal application of their respective laws to citizens both old and new — until they were forced to contend with a human surge in the name of being “open” . The fact that the public sentiment so predictably fatigued in the face of such rapid change — not wrong change, per se, but unassimilated change — illustrates that what Soros has accomplished is, in fact, antithetical to the goal of creating open minds, let alone open borders. We should all shudder to think just how closed, if not fascist, the future may become now that he has decided to leave ~$18 billion of his money to his Open Society Foundations after he passes away to ensure that the work carries on! What work was there to do in this vein when we already have migration-enriched Democracies in the very countries where many of his OSF’s intended to effect change? Of all the pro-Democracy priorities in the world, why not use those billions to encourage better conditions in less developed countries in Africa and Central/South America where autocracy, corruption and tribalism truly does wreak havoc on social and economic stability?

In summary, there something very “off” about the fact that Soros philanthropy efforts all but regard the West as “broken” when it is the West and America, more specifically, that fought the Nazis and won! To suggest that we aren’t open enough, while leaving the crime and corruption unchecked in countries that could really use a functioning, Democratic government with proper checks and balances in place to ensure their own citizens’ success, is utterly and completely suspect. One has all the money in the world to spend on one’s idea of Utopia — and one chooses not to help impoverished nations that have been roped into imbalanced trade arrangements and IMF/World Bank servitude, and instead seeks to change the social order in countries that are already diverse, Democratic, economically productive and cosmopolitan?

For those who think that Soros is just another wealthy philanthropist, among many, marching to his own drummer, I would urge his actions to be judged on results vs. stated intent. Soros’ made his fortune exploiting the reality that markets will sometimes shift even when the underlying fundamentals do not support the direction in which they head. If he has the kind of wherewithal to see these disparate forces at play in the market, then surely he is not a bumbling actor who has just happened upon the misfortune of being “opposed” by right-wingers. He is creating the extreme Right with every blow of his Billion Dollar hammer. If he were a true philanthropist, he would support Democracy where it is weakest — not where it has managed to create, however imperfectly, relatively stable social and economic systems. The stated intent of Soros’ effort is one thing, but to continue to fund those efforts when it has clearly produced more, not fewer, fascist sympathizers, should tell you that this philanthropist has either lost his marbles or he was never in the “game” for the lofty pro-Democracy goals he claims to support. If it walks like a duck…

*https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/magazine/george-soros-democrat-open-society.html#commentsContainer

“George Soros is like Donald Trump without the humility”. Interesting observation! I’d say George Soros is a much more polished and clever devil.

perhaps your assessment of Soros and this interview is more projection. On the basis of this interview I would judge him sane with some considerable moral depth and complexity.