I have questions. About things that, to me, don’t compute. And one thing that does not compute for me is George Soros and his radical far-left prosecutors. Especially since billionaire Soros is supposed to be a student of Karl Popper of The Open Society and Its Enemies. I mean: urban crime is why the Brits invented the Bobbies of London and their truncheons to crack the heads of the Bill Sikeses of London.
So today I got to read a piece about the Soros prosecutors, “Rogue Prosecutors and the Rise of Crime” by Cully Stimson of the Heritage Foundation. He describes the process that got the Soros prosecutor thing going.
Back in 2015 Soros hired attorney Whitney Tymas from an NGO “where she focused on ‘the role of prosecutors in perpetuating racial disparity.’” She and another activist had a plan “to elect anti-death penalty prosecutors” and got $1 million from Soros to elect them in Louisiana and Mississippi. Their approach grew into a movement to “‘reverse engineer’ and ‘dismantle’ the existing criminal justice system” with rogue prosecutors that wouldn’t prosecute minor offenses or require cash bail for those accused of crimes.
Really, they believe this? But, with the rise the pro-Palestinian protest movement since October 7, 2023, the answer is: of course they do. There are little kiddies from sea to shining sea that have been indoctrinated in the Victim Narrative all busily marking up their protest signs and their rhyming protest chants. And if you are not sure, just go read about NPR CEO and white rich-kid Katherine Maher. Even Andrew Sullivan is red-pilled on Maher:
She tweeted “white silence is complicity” in June 2020. She went after James Bennet for “platforming” Tom Cotton. She’s frustrated by the robustness of the First Amendment. She refers to her “cis white mobility privilege.” She chided Hillary for saying “‘boy and girl’ — it’s erasing language for non-binary people.” She even self-flagellates over her own “trans-erasure.”
In other words, today in the educated ruling class you need to be a woke activist that is fully down with the horror of “systemic racism” if you want to rise up through the ranks. Nate Kochman writes about Maher at The American Spectator:
While her posts may be exceptionally risible, her views are par for the course in most of America’s elite institutions — in many cases, they are the price of entry. Maher herself sports impeccable elite credentials: Prior to NPR, she served as CEO and executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia. According to a 2021 biography, Maher was also “a fellow at the Truman National Security Project,” has written for outlets such as Foreign Policy, the Atlantic, and the Guardian,” and serves as “a member of the Advisory Council of the Open Technology Fund and the board of the Sunlight Foundation.”
More and more, I am getting to feel that if you are a notorious speculator like George Soros the cheapest way to get protection is to fund the left’s Activism Industrial Complex. It just makes business sense. That’s the way to understand Mark Zuckerberg and his “Zuckbucks.” And it underlines the crazy courage of Elon Musk, who is clearly in the crosshairs of the Deep State with his purchase of Twitter and going against the Narrative with his publication of The Twitter Files and his reduction in censorship at Twitter/X.
Because, hey, this from the Epoch Times.
I gotta say. Nothing like a recession and Fed easing to get the Top 1% on track. And why not humor the left’s illusions and/or delusions of virtue with a dribble of contributions to their Activist Industrial Complex?
But why? Like I say, the reason we are in the middle of the Great Woke-arian Cultural Revolution is that the political and moral agenda of the educated class has failed. Indeed it has made things worse. Its welfare state for workers is just a huge money sink; its liberation of women has made them into apologetic women Ivy League presidents testifying to Congress and silly rich girls like Katherine Maher reciting woke Narrative. Its civil rights for blacks has turned into another huge money sink plus the destruction of the black family and the marginalization of fatherless boys into gangs and violent crime. And transgender ideology is making women unsafe in the public restroom. And economic and environmental regulation is throwing sand in the gears of the economy. See the graph above.
See, when you are the ruling class, it cannot be true that you and your brilliant ideas have screwed the poor, the female, the minorities, and the marginalized. Couldn’t be! Because we are the Good Guys! All our ideas are Hope and Change! So it must be the racist-sexist-homophobe behind the tree and their systemic racism that is causing all our problems.