Soros has created a superpower for democracy. But he could use some help. [barf alert]

Washington Post ^ | 10/20/2017 | Editorial Board

[Hetuck]

If a person is to be judged by his enemies, George Soros can feel proud. Autocrats across Eastern Europe, including his native Hungary, as well as those from China to Egypt and many in between, have expressed fear and loathing — and taken action against — the civil society organizations that Mr. Soros has generously supported for three decades. Dictators do not like Mr. Soros at all, so it is good news that he has now contributed $18 billion of his fortune to his Open Society Foundations. Mr. Soros was moved many years ago by the 1945 book by Karl Popper, “The Open Society and Its Enemies,” written during the struggle against totalitarianism in World War II but holding lessons for today. Then as now, a healthy civil society — the connections of free citizens to one another through the press, informal associations, advocacy organizations and otherwise — is the bane of authoritarianism.

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Mr. Soros, who lived in Nazi-occupied Hungary as a boy, is at the forefront of pushing back against totalitarianism and authoritarianism, and his new commitment suggests that his foundations will sustain this mission for years to come.

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As former president George W. Bush said in an important address on Thursday, “For more than 70 years, the presidents of both parties believed that American security and prosperity were directly tied to the success of freedom in the world. And they knew that the success depended, in large part, on U.S. leadership.” For all the positive works Mr. Soros envisions for his billions, it would be doubly good if the government of the United States were walking in tandem with him, and it is a tragedy that it is not.

[Yorlik803]

Thought this was from the Onion. Then I saw it was from a less believable source.

[conservativeimage]

[conservativeimage]

Soros helped the Nazis confiscate the assets of Jews in hungary during World War II.

Soros made a career and a fortune out of betraying one nation to another. Open Society fosters the conditions to make it possible.

[piasa]

No, he was not praising Soros, he does not even mention Soros in his quote. You missed the punctuation and are combining the author's text with Bush's quote because the author is attempting to create that impression.

There's no mention of Soros in his quote at all and as far as the quote goes he's right and it actually reads as a quote in opposition to everything Soros is working for as Soros is wholly against US leadership , preferring UN-like international consensus instead:

As former president George W. Bush said in an important address on Thursday, “For more than 70 years, the presidents of both parties believed that American security and prosperity were directly tied to the success of freedom in the world. And they knew that the success depended, in large part, on U.S. leadership.”

[Noumenon]

I’d help that piece of filth to a stake in the Ceausescu Courtyard Inn.

[Savage Beast]

"War is peace!"
"Love is hate"
"Freedom is slavery"
~The Washington Post~

[SaveFerris]

Leave it to the Wash Compost to spin anything.

I’ll still never trust W again, though.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

This Editorial Board guy is quite a retard.

[WatchungEagle]

“For more than 70 years, the presidents of both parties believed that American security and prosperity were directly tied to the success of freedom in the world. And they knew that the success depended, in large part, on U.S. leadership.” That's the globalist philosophy in a nutshell.