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This is really as ridiculous as the left's take on Karl Rove.

The days of a rich guy manipulating the world are over. There are hundreds of billionaires, and the top 10% of the general population has much more total money than even they do, not to mention hundreds of times more writers and reasoners.

What happens nowadays is due to the actions of thousands and millions of people at the top of society. Soros can say and believe anything he wants, but if no one buys it his money won't help.

Obviously, some people in the upper-class ruling group who do believe what he says, but they would probably think that even if he didn't exist.

There are hundreds of billionaires, and the top 10% of the general population has much more total money than even they do, not to mention hundreds of times more writers and reasoners.

So what? Which is more dangerous--one man with an Idea and the cash equivalent of the resources of millions of people, or many people with many ideas?

You're ignoring the power of Soros' ability to focus, and not need the agreement of others. That 10% you mentioned don't behave as a bloc. Soros, one man, does.

The days of a rich guy manipulating the world are over.

That's not what Horowitz and Poe are contending.

Instead, they assert that Soros is trying to manipulate a single political party, by having gained control of its funding.

Such an act is well within Soros' means and not inconsistent with Democrat motivations; the party would readily sell its soul for a return to power.

In sum, Horowitz and Poe appear to be correct.

Sorry, but you are dead wrong. The Lberal elite control a lot of things, and as a group have the ability to do a lot of damage to the world.

Time to wake up and read up. Start with the rich guy I posted about. Read the article, then ask yourself again if people like this friend of Soros is powerless. They all belong to the same club.

You're wrong. And the real question is WHY don't you get this.

This isn't some black helicopter/tinfoil conspiracy thing; no, this is a compilation, of sorts, of Soros' dealings and political dabbling for the last decade or so.

The article isn't discussing the top 10% of this nation's political denotations, but rather, Soros and a small band of fellow billionaires, whose sole purpose if control. Soros is a VERY focused man. Forget THE PRINCE and read up on Cardinal Richelieu, in France.

Yes, there are GOPer billionaires ( and in this case, millionaires just don't cut it !), but unlike the billionaires on the far left, the ones on our side aren't into forming a shadow government and never have been.

And it isn't just America, that Soros has meddled with! No, he has tried to meddle, sometimes successfully and sometimes not, in quite a number of nations' politics and economics.

Since 1994, [Soros] had worked with a network of leftwing foundations to fund a $140-million-dollar lobbying drive in favor of “campaign finance reform.”

. . . about which Rush at the time made the point that CFR was barely even on the radar of the public, polling something like 2%. His point was that the journalists were the only ones who cared about the issue - but then, Soros later bragged that he had done it.

The campaign succeeded in passing the McCain-Feingold Act, which, by outlawing “soft-money” donations, in effect de-funded the Democratic Party.

. . . Having driven the Democratic Party to the brink of bankruptcy, Soros, [in effect, took financial control of it].

That is obviously a tin foil hat conspiracy theory. After all, the Democratic Party was the driving force in Congress behind McCain-Feingold, and this posits that the party essentially cut off its own financial legs in the process, essentially setting itself up for a white knight takeover. It's a crazy notion. No political party can even exist without mass public support.
OTOH, the idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR. And PR, when push comes to shove, is money. Whether it comes from circulation subscriptions or advertising or from Daddy Warbucks, money runs printing presses and the broadcast networks.
Hmmm . . . Pass the tin foil . . .
Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate
And everyone craves PR. People even make themselves suspects in the Jean Benet Ramsey case just to get PR . . . The whole Drive-by Media thing is about craving PR among the operators of the media: knocking important and valuable institutions promotes the people who do the knocking (sick, but true).

I'm not so sure. His folks really tried to manipulate the elections here in Ohio recently. It was rejected when the Soros name came up. I describe this guy as "power hungry".
However, you can't blame a guy for trying. He and his ilk could run things without worrying about reelection and that nasty 8 year limt thing.
Who benefits when the masses are "equal"? Elites! Intellectuals and Billionaires. They don't have to worry about competition and have the power to control.