George Soros is back, and he's gotten out his checkbook.
According to Politico:
Billionaire mega-donor George Soros is seeding a super PAC with $125 million, an enormous investment that will aid Democratic groups and candidates for the 2022 election cycle and beyond.
The group, Democracy PAC, has served as Soros' campaign spending vehicle since 2019, channeling more than $80 million to other Democratic groups and candidates during the 2020 election cycle. The new, nine-figure investment from Soros is aimed at supporting pro-democracy "causes and candidates, regardless of political party" who are invested in "strengthening the infrastructure of American democracy: voting rights and civic participation, civil rights and liberties, and the rule of law," Soros said in a statement shared first with POLITICO.
Those moneybags will go to elect the craziest, most compromised, most surreal-talking leftists, including legislators, secretaries of state, and presumably district attorneys, three types of officials he's been funding for the past few election cycles, as well as Black Lives Matter–type activists. But in the Sorosian style, which means the opposite of what it says, the whole donation is couched in the language of saving "democracy" and promoting non-partisanship. It may be a tax dodge, for one, but it's also how Joe Biden, who gets a lot of Soros cash at least indirectly talks. Wonder why. Top Articles By American Thinker
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Naturally, the cash starts with his mini-me:
Alexander Soros, George Soros' son, will serve as the [Democracy] PAC's president. In his own statement, Alexander Soros cited the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, and "ongoing efforts to discredit and undermine our electoral process, reveal the magnitude of the threat to our democracy," adding that this "is a generational threat that cannot be addressed in just one or two election cycles."
Pouring cash into races sometimes succeeds, but only if the public is unaware of what is going on, and even more important, it doesn't have a name attached.
That puts Soros in a bad position on both fronts.
Here's one impact from this Soros funding of so-called democracy and civil society:
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The Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund (LELDF) analyzed the outcome of dropping conviction rates under six different progressive district attorneys. These district attorneys are cited as "criminal justice reform" prosecutors who seek to use their elected positions to unilaterally end mass incarceration and racial disparities in convictions and reduce recidivism rates.
The report found that in each of the six prosecutors' jurisdictions, felony crime rates have increased while their prosecutors' policies are reducing conviction rates. The net results are a lack of justice for victims and rising crime rates. The report concludes, "This signals a troubling trend as these progressive activists attain local prosecutorial roles and may mark a rise in crime in the affected jurisdictions and nearby locales."
Here's another, from a 2007 piece I wrote for Investor's Business Daily, the second item, titled "George Soros: The Man, The Mind And The Money Behind MoveOn":
Soros usually doesn't offer up or endorse specific candidates for office. His chief aim seems to be tearing down [George W.] Bush, driving the Democrats to the far left and enforcing party discipline through fear. In fact, he seems to like keeping Democrats guessing whether or not he's offended.
The strategy seems to be working. No Democrat had the courage to cross MoveOn.org after its libelous Petraeus ad. On Thursday, a symbolic vote in Congress censuring MoveOn.org for the Petraeus ad passed, but with the notable absence of both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Election looming, neither wants to cross Soros' MoveOn.org.
In other words, Democrat legislators vote as he likes, no matter how unpopular it makes them with voters, because Soros money is more important. Obama? Hillary? Biden? All in very deep based on their inexplicable voting patterns. I wrote about that in the third piece, "A Party Bought and Paid For" at this link here.
I argued in the third piece in the series, "The Soros Threat to Democracy" that the problem with Soros and his moneybags approach was the absence of transparency:
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