From Shadow Party to Shadow Government

by David Horowitz and John Perazzo

Following is an excerpt from “Shadow Party to Shadow Government”…

"We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America." — Barack Obama (October 30, 2008)

A watershed moment in George Soros' long and stealthy effort to capture control of the Democratic Party and change the course of American politics came in August 2008 at the Party's presidential nominating convention in Denver, Colorado. One of a series of panel discussions staged for the media VIPs and moneymen, all of them euphoric at the growing prospect of Barack Obama's victory in the upcoming elections, featured a man named Rob Stein.

An aide to Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown during the Clinton administration, Stein was not well known to the public but was locally famous among "progressive" Democrats as a key operative in the network of institutions designed by Soros in an effort to create what they only half jokingly referred to as a "vast leftwing conspiracy."

The subject of the panel discussion Stein staged for Party movers and shakers in 2008 was "The Colorado Miracle." Everyone in the room knew that the phrase referred to a stunning political development generated virtually overnight by a chain of Soros-funded state organizations. The lineup of state office holders told the tale.

In October 2004, Republicans held two U.S. Senate seats, five of seven congressional seats, the governorship, the secretary of state's office and both houses of the legislature. When the 2008 election scarcely two months away ended, the exact opposite would be true, and Colorado would have been changed from a red state to a blue one in one brief election cycle.

Some political commentators would see this transformation as an expression of Western independence and contrarianism or of changing demographics, which had given the state a growing Hispanic population. These and other factors had played a role. But as Stein pointed out in his discussion of the Miracle then just nearing its apotheosis, Colorado had been given a political makeover primarily as a result of a relentless political ground war waged by the Colorado Democracy Alliance, an organization created out of his vision and Soros' money.

The Colorado Democracy Alliance had created, in record time, a progressive political infrastructure with one purpose: taking over Colorado politics from the precinct to the statehouse. It had accomplished this by putting together a relentless political blitzkrieg. And best of all, Stein assured his audience, what had happened in Colorado was an exportable model that could be replicated in dozens of other states across the country.

The election of Barack Obama might be the immediate goal before them, Stein concluded, but the long-term objective was to take control of the American political system. "The reason we're doing what we're doing..." he said, "and the way we get progressive change is to control government."

Rob Stein was speaking for his patron as well as for himself. Over a twenty year period, George Soros has been able to exercise unparalleled influence through the network of leftwing political organizations he built — a network so successful that it is a power unto itself and has earned itself a title: the Shadow Party. It is a network that exists in a political penumbra, although it calls for transparency; that works at the edges of the electoral system, although affecting electoral outcomes is its raison d'etre.

Soros' agenda is hidden and his goals are not made public because they are based on a radical vision of social change that most Americans not only reject but fear. But this agenda involving a radical change of American institutions has subverted and taken over the Democratic Party. The Soros agenda, in fact, has become the Obama agenda.

The Billionaire Philanthropist Born in Hungary in 1930 into a deracinated Jewish family, George Soros survived World War II by working as an assistant to an official in the fascist government whose job was to confiscate the property of Jews headed to the gas chambers.

After the war, Soros relocated to England, where he attended the London School of Economics and was influenced by one-worldism and the prospect of perfecting humanity through social engineering. But at this point in his life his ideas were subordinate to the desire to make money. After graduating in 1952, Soros joined a London brokerage firm, Singer and Friedlander. Four years later, he relocated to New York and eventually found work as a portfolio manager at an investment bank.

He brought continental anti-bourgeois and anti-American attitudes with him and later admitted that he only wanted to stay in the U.S. long enough to make his fortune. But business was too good and he became a citizen.

In 1973 Soros set up a private partnership called the Soros Fund, renamed The Quantum Fund in 1979. Its value grew to $381 million by 1980, and more than $1 billion by 1985. As he later said, "Having made it, I could then indulge my social concerns."

The $3 million he invested in these concerns in 1987 grew to $300 million a year by 1992. During this period, Soros established a series of foundations in Central Asia and Eastern Europe, where projects he funded hastened the fall of communist regimes and also, as he freely admitted, opened new money-making opportunities for him with the state industries and properties up for grabs.

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Is George Soros the power behind the throne of Obama and now Biden? Is he the puppeteer, the entity that is pulling the strings of the mouthpieces who are dragging America into a Marxist open society where egalitarianism is the model?

It certainly seems like he is at least part of the cabal that has designs on redesigning America, the authors of fundamental transformation. If so, he and his cabal must be exposed, discredited, and deposed if we are to stop our inevitable descent into Marxism, where everyone is equally poor.

The Liberator