![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ZW75JDC2RFAKPLZPILGNI2C244-300x158.jpg\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
I found an article at ‘The Guardian’ that reviewed George Soros’s failures. It’s obvious that the writer likes Soros, but he does not gloss over the failures. \u00a0https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/jul\/06\/the-george-soros-philosophy-and-its-fatal-flaw<\/a><\/p>\n One of those failures \u2013 Soros’s biggest – \u00a0is not understanding that this country is a democratic republic, not a democracy, and that’s why it works so well. Democracies fail. When Rome stopped being a republic and became a democracy as idealized by Pericles and Cleisthenes in Athens, it began to fail. Soros thinks that the USA is a democracy, which is incorrect.<\/p>\n We should outlast Rome, if we don’t fiddle with it.<\/p>\n He really disliked Bush\u2019s war-oriented reaction, a completely natural response, to the 9\/11 hijackers\u2019 use of passenger planes as flying bombs, and a means of committing mass murder. It was warlike and reactionary (no, really?) and should have been less aggressive, according to Soros. Yes, let\u2019s do appease those who wish to kill us in large groups.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n He thinks Trump is a dictator. Trump is a lot of things, but a dictator? Not even! He\u2019s just really good with timing. I\u2019ve seen stopwatches that are less accurate. He knows how to throw a bone out there with a string attached to it and reel in the fish that swallowed it. I’m sure he could successfully herd cats.<\/p>\n The Guardian’s rather interesting article is about Soros\u2019s complete failure to understand how important capitalism is to a prosperous and healthy economy. This is really quite odd, because he\u2019s a hedge fund manager, someone who manipulates financial markets to make a profit. That is pure, unadulterated, unfiltered capitalism. There\u2019s a real serious disconnect there.<\/p>\n Per The Guardian article, Soros seems to be slipping further to the Left of the political spectrum. He looks at Hungary’s Orban as a “dictator” the same way he looks at Trump. Is this some kind of ‘turf jealousy’? I must pay more attention to Hungary. This is interesting.<\/p>\n Where else in Europe is this going on? Oh, that’s right: Germany. They just had their elections.<\/p>\n Merkel is not going for a 5th<\/sup> term. The AfD party (right-wing) received 12%+ of the most recent vote and now has a seat in the German parliament, while Merkel\u2019s two centrist parties (CDU and SPD) lost votes. She can no longer achieve a majority vote, so she\u2019s giving up. I think our two-term president rule is much better. We really don\u2019t want a Prezzie for life, like Xi Jinping. Even Vlad Putin is slipping in popularity. This ain\u2019t Venezuela.<\/p>\n Soros is the guy who shorted the British pound sterling in 1991-1992 and got it yanked out of EU circulation. It was generally described as \u2018breaking the pound\u2019. Remember our brief recession then? You think there’s no connection? \u00a0Soros is a financial speculator, not an investor. Taking that into consideration, I would like to know how many fingers he had in the US financial pie prior to the disastrous collapse of US financial markets in 2009. And how much did his hedge fund profit from it? Understand that when you manipulate financial markets the way he can, you can trip over your own hubris.<\/p>\n As much practice as he\u2019s had, he could have done to the US dollar, the basis for international currency values and trade support, what he did to the British pound. If you understand that, you\u2019ll know how close we came to a worldwide financial disaster.<\/p>\n The Guardian\u2019s final paragraph:\u00a0 \u201cPresently, Soros\u2019s cosmopolitan dreams remain exactly that. The question is why, and the answer might very well be that the open society is only possible in a world where no one \u2013 whether Soros, or Gates, or DeVos, or Zuckerberg, or Buffett, or Musk, or Bezos \u2013 is allowed to become as rich as he has.\u201d<\/p>\n Think about that for a minute: a world where NO ONE is allowed to become wealthy or rise from poverty to a better life. NO ONE. Ask people who finally were allowed to leave the Soviet Union and subsequently, Russia, what that feels like. Strangely, many of them are like my skating teacher, who is Polish by birth, and Russian immigrants, and who found a home and support in Skokie, IL, when they got here, and were able to get right on track to a better life.<\/p>\n