Birthing the Culture War

Campus Report ^ | September 11, 2007 | Bethany Stotts

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Birthing the Culture War

by: Bethany Stotts, September 11, 2007

Over the last half century, America has become embroiled in a culture war between so-called Open Society liberals and Reaganite conservatives. Authors David Horowitz and Richard Poe describe the Open Society in their book, “The Shadow Party,” as founded upon Karl Popper’s philosophy that “A truly open person never assumes that his beliefs are superior to someone else’s and never forgets his own fallibility.” According to Horowitz and Poe, George Soros then adopted this philosophy, founding the Open Society Institute. OSI describes its dedication to “support the rule of law, education, public health, and independent media” and “to build alliances across borders and continents on issues such as combating corruption and rights abuses.” In contrast, Horowitz and Poe describe Soros as an ultrarich mastermind reminiscent of the Bond media mogul nemesis, Eliot Carver. Horowitz and Poe claim that Soros has funded and manufactured the ascension of sixties radicals into positions of power within the Democratic Party in order to promote radical left-wing policies such as marijuana legalization and amnesty for illegal aliens.

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I hate to see Karl Popper’s fine work hijacked like that. Why doesn’t Soros go after, China, Russia, and Iran, instead of the US? Could it be that his Open Society cr*p is really just a stalking horse for radical Socialism?

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Could it be that his Open Society cr*p is really just a stalking horse for radical Socialism?

Soros' "Open Society" crap is really just a stalking horse for socialism.