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It Should Be That Easy

1/27/2020

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This brief post pertains to a post I wrote about the planned Open Society University Network George Soros announced at Davos last week. 

The funny thing about Soros is he almost always spells out his intentions exactly. Though his messages are often marinated in lies, half truths, trendy socio-political adjectives, and benevolent sounding noun phrases, the underlying intentions he expresses within these appealing word salads are fairly straightforward. But it seems most people fail to grasp the obvious.

Zoltán Kovács, a spokesperson for the Hungarian government, made an interesting observation about this on his official blog yesterday. Kovács writes: 

"As we’ve said before, the international media and advocates of globalism enjoy referring to Mr. Soros as a “philanthropist” engaged in “charitable giving.” But all you really have to do is listen to Soros himself. He’s pretty clear about his determination to push his open society agenda."

It should be that easy, but it doesn't seem like too many people are all that interested in really listening to what Soros actually says. This turns something that should be easy into something that inevitably becomes very difficult.
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bruce charlton
1/27/2020 15:38:14

I remember the first time I heard anyone seriously propose open borders was (I think) when I was speaking on a panel for LM (Living Marxism) magazine at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival some 30 years ago (my memory is hazy on the detail) and Claire Fox argued for it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Fox

I could not believe anybody was serious about such an absurdity - yet I later found myself drifting in that direction when I was a libertarian. Which just goes to show that atheist intellectuals can believe almost anything (except God).

Since CF is now in the Brexit party as an MEP, I suppose she has since changed her mind; as, of course, I have since then.

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Francis Berger
1/27/2020 17:15:12

@ Bruce - I believe there is a big difference between holding bad ideas in life and bad ideas holding you in life. The former is an inevitable part of learning through experience while the latter is a telltale sign of ideological possession.

Soros's networks fall into the latter category. When confronted about open borders, they usually dissemble and claim they support no such thing, which is nonsense of course.

When asked to comment about the fence Hungary erected to stem mass undocumented migration, Mr. Soros offered the following thoughts about Viktor Orbán:

“His plan treats the protection of national borders as the objective and the refugees as an obstacle,” Mr Soros added. “Our plan treats the protection of refugees as the objective and national borders as the obstacle.”

Clearly not in favor of open borders . . .

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