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The Cult Of Soros
By David Horowitz and Richard Poe
August 24, 2006
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Their connection to the anti-Lieberman campaign is, as the Marxists like to say, no accident. The Lieberman ouster -- and Soros's role in it -- signify the emergence of a new phenomenon in America's political life: the Shadow Party.
During the 2004 election cycle, Soros put together a network of organizations through which he gained effective control of the Democratic Party's campaign apparatus -- and thus of the Democratic Party itself -- in a silent coup whose ramifications are still unfolding.
Soros's coup was ten years in the making. Since 1994, he had worked with a network of leftwing foundations to fund a $140-million-dollar lobbying drive in favor of "campaign finance reform." The campaign succeeded in passing the McCain-Feingold Act, which, by outlawing "soft-money" donations, in effect de-funded the Democratic Party. As a result of the Act, the Democratic Party could no longer collect the multi-million-dollar donations from labor unions which were its lifeblood.
Soros stepped in with the Shadow Party to collect the donations instead.
Having driven the Democratic Party to the brink of bankruptcy, Soros then offered to save it. In effect, he privatized the Party, by setting up a network of privately-owned, non-profit groups which would raise the big campaign contributions the Party was now forbidden to raise itself.
In a new book, which describes Soros's achievement, we call this network the Shadow Party, because it acts as a mirror image or shadow of the real Democratic Party. During the 2004 election cycle, the Shadow Party raised more than $300 million for the Democrat cause -- but spent the money itself. This allowed it to shape the politics of the Democratic campaign and control the party's future. Joe Lieberman now understands what that means.
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David Horowitz and Richard Poe co-wrote The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton and Sixties Radicals Siezed Control of the Democratic Party (Thomas Nelson, 2006)
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