What is The Shadow Party in America?

George Soros – The Shadow Puppet Master for the Radical Progressive Socialists within the Democratic Party

The Shadow Party: Part I

The “Shadow Party” is a term originally devised by journalists to describe “527” political committees promoting Democratic Party agendas. It is here used more specifically to refer to the network of non-profit activist groups organized by George Soros and others to mobilize resources — money, get-out-the-vote drives, campaign advertising and policy initiatives — to elect Democratic candidates and guide the Democratic Party towards the left. The Internet fund-raising operation MoveOn.org is a key component. The Shadow Party in this sense was conceived and organized principally by Soros, Hillary Clinton and Harold Ickes. Its efforts are amplified by, and coordinated with, key government unions and the activist groups associated with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). The key organizers of these groups are veterans of the Sixties left. The individuals and organizations listed on this page are some of the major players, past and present, in the Shadow Party. For a comprehensive discussion of the Shadow Party, its constituent members, and its agendas and activities, click here.

A month later …

Part 1: Origins

“My family is more important to me than my party,” declared Senator Zell Miller, a Georgia Democrat, as he spoke from the podium of the Republican National Convention on September 1. “There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man’s name is George Bush.” [1]

Many Democrats howled in outrage at Miller’s “betrayal” – former President Jimmy Carter in particular. In an angry personal letter to the Georgia senator, Carter accused Miller of “unprecedented disloyalty” and declared, “You have betrayed our trust. [I]t’s quite possible that your rabid speech damaged our party…”

But nothing Miller said could possibly have damaged the Democratic Party more than its own leaders had done in making the war in Iraq a partisan issue and embracing the anti-war cause. In his anger, Carter had mistaken the symptom for the disease. Long before Zell Miller’s démarche, Ronald Reagan — a Roosevelt Democrat who re-registered as a Republican in 1962 — followed a similar course, explaining, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party; the Democratic Party left me.”[3]

The leftward drift of the Democratic Party accelerated through the Vietnam years, spurred by the anti-war candidacies of Bobby Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern. When the congressional Democrats pulled the plug on aid to our allies in southeast Asia in the 1970s, a contingent of anti-Communist “Scoop” Jackson Democrats crossed the aisle in protest and became Republicans – an act for which they were labeled “neo-conservatives.” Rank-and-file Democrats staged a silent but even more devastating walk-out after four years of Jimmy Carter’s “blame America” Administration, casting their ballots by the millions for the Gipper.

The Democrats’ current presidential aspirant John Kerry has ambitiously modeled his political career after John F. Kennedy’s. Yet their politics bear little resemblance. If Kennedy were alive today, Democrats would condemn his sweeping capital gains tax cuts as a sop to the rich. His militant anti-Communism would evoke charges of right-wing “paranoia.” And the vow he made in his inaugural address to confront tyranny anywhere in the world would win him the label of “neo-conservative” imperialist among today’s Democrats. Instead of calling on Americans to “support any friend” and “oppose any foe” — as Kennedy did in his famous address – many Democrats are busy sabotaging our war effort in Iraq, with speeches as strident as any that emanated from the New Left during the Vietnam era.

The devolution of the Democrats from the Cold War party of Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy to the progressive party of Edward Kennedy and John F. Kerry has long been in progress, and is not quite complete. But the Democrats’ final transformation into a party of the left in the European mode may not be far off. Barely noticed by political observers, an activist juggernaut has seized control of the party’s national electoral apparatus, organized, financed and directed by the left.

This party within the party has no official name, but some journalists and commentators have begun referring to it as the Shadow Party, a term that we will use as well. It denotes a network of non-profit groups presently raising hundreds of millions of dollars for deployment on the campaign battlefield. This money pays for advertising, get-out-the-vote-drives, opposition research, dirty tricks and virtually every aspect of a modern electoral campaign. But it does so through independent groups with no formal connection to the Democratic Party.

Follow the Money

The Shadow Party emerged from the dense thicket of campaign finance reforms engineered by Senators John McCain and Russ Feingold. Thanks to the soft-money ban enacted by the McCain-Feingold Act of March 27, 2002, the Democratic Party entered the current election cycle hard pressed to raise enough money legally to undertake a winning campaign. This created an imperative that found its inevitable loophole (as critics of McCain-Feingold always warned it would). Consequently, the driving force in the political war against George Bush is now a group of billionaires and millionaires operating through the veiled structures of the Shadow Party.

Under McCain-Feingold, political parties and candidates can only accept “hard money” contributions – that is, contributions given to a specific political party for a specific political campaign. Such contributions must be reported to the Federal Election Commission, and are limited to a $2,000 maximum per donor for each candidate, or $5,000 per donor if they are paid to a federally registered political action committee (PAC). Historically, Republicans have enjoyed a 2-1 advantage over Democrats in raising hard-money contributions from individual donors. Democrats have relied much more heavily on soft-money contributions from large institutions such as unions … (more)

The Soros Factor

According to conventional wisdom the Shadow Party began taking form shortly after March 27, 2002 – the date President Bush signed the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, popularly known as McCain-Feingold. However, the Shadow Party’s earliest origins predate the Reform Act by many years. The principal mover behind the Shadow Party is Wall Street billionaire and leftwinger George Soros. A New York hedge fund manager, global investment banker and currency trader, Soros has a personal net worth in the $7 billion range. Under his aegis, the Shadow Party has created a new power base for the left, independent of the mainstream party apparatus – a leverage point from which to tilt the party in an ever-more-radical direction.

Only Soros knows when he first conceived the idea of forming this network. However, clear hints of his intentions began to appear as early as the 2000 election. By that time, Soros had already baffled friend and foe alike with his increasingly strident attacks on capitalism – the very system which had elevated him from a penniless Hungarian refugee to one of the world’s wealthiest men. In his 1998 book The Crisis of Global Capitalism, Soros predicted an imminent collapse of the global financial system. Financiers like himself were largely to blame, he wrote, for they had allowed greed to overwhelm their humanity. “The (global capitalist) system is deeply flawed,” wrote Soros. “As long as capitalism remains triumphant, the pursuit of money overrides all other social considerations.” [6]

Soros offered no coherent solution to the problem. He simply continued his long-established pattern of pouring money into a hodge-podge of fashionable leftwing causes, such as promoting mass immigration into the United States; financing anti-gun lawsuits and lobbyists; demanding voting rights for felons; seeking the abolition of capital punishment; exacerbating Palestinian unrest; promoting abortion; feminism; population control; gay liberation; euthanasia; radical theories of education; marijuana legalization and global government.

… CONTINUE READING HERE

George Soros–The Shadow Puppet Master–Radical Progressive Socialists–Democratic Party – Videos

So where does all this lead? I don’t have the answers, but I’m not done yet! Whatever happens, our daily lives will continue much as they are today, most likely. We will go to work, have time with family and friends, and take time to write about it one place or another! It’s good, I believe, to chew on these things, but in the long run, none of us knows if life will change here in these United States, and if so, how much? Perspective is a key element in survival!

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Unmasking Islamic Government Aimed at Global Conquest

Like many of my fellow Americans, I am outraged … seething at the response, or lack thereof, from our President (et al) to the happenings in the Middle East. Please do not for one second believe the lies propagated by the media in coordination with the State Dept that this violence GLOBALLY is a response to a minuscule film expressing the views of one man. It is NOT! The fact that it simultaneously occurred in several nations on 9/11 should tell a reasonably intelligent person this. I doubt I have all the facts straight – perhaps none of us do, since the media refuses to do its job, but this much I DO know … We are being duped and manipulated. By whom? To what end? This is an EXTREME game of Super Politics, and you and I and the victims in Libya are among the pieces in play.

An Islamist Jordanian protester burn the U.S. flag near the U.S. embassy in Amman, Jordan, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

It is such a joke that our President has received the Nobel “Peace” award … un-freaking-believable! But please do not for one second believe this President has failed. He has accomplished EXACTLY what he intended – or what his “handlers” intended. He has set the American people against one another, driven dividing walls between us by race, by faith, by our dreams for the future. He has all but destroyed the most affluent, productive economy on earth! But most significantly, he has broken our will … or has he? This remains to be seen.

We must also understand that we are crippled in our understanding of what is happening in the Middle East. Our minds do not function the way theirs do because we have experienced FREEDOM! To us, freedom means choosing our own way of life, our own goals, our own beliefs, our own education, our own spouse (singular). For the most part, freedom in the USA means living the way we please. To a Muslim, however, freedom means something altogether different. FREEDOM means freedom from the Laws of man. Think about that! It means freedom FROM the Laws of man (Constitution) and freedom to live by Sharia Law – Allah’s law which happens to be in contradiction to God’s Law according to the Judeo-Christian tradition.

jus·tice   [juhs-tis]
noun
1.
the quality of being just; righteousness, equitableness, or moral rightness: to uphold the justice of a cause.
2.
rightfulness or lawfulness, as of a claim or title; justness of ground or reason: to complain with justice.
3.
the moral principle determining just conduct.
4.
conformity to this principle, as manifested in conduct; just conduct, dealing, or treatment.
5.
the administering of deserved punishment or reward.

On the other hand, to the Muslim, justice is according to Shariah – a totally different standard which will never COEXIST with ANY other form of Justice. Let’s get some historical context.

“Muslims have flocked to the West for the last several decades in the hope of finding a better life. But while they left corruption and poverty behind in their home countries, they are now experiencing the evaporation of the illusions they entertained about the ideal life they had expected to find in the West. Instead of seeing the success of their “Dawa”, and seeing increasing numbers of Westerners embrace Islam, or at least come to appreciate its beauty, they are now being marginalized and villianized as the specter of a new Cold War, where rampant “Islamophobia” is making their lives increasingly difficult in general.

“How did this happen? How did they not see this coming? Should they have stayed in their home countries? Was there something wrong with their “Dawa”? Or, is this just a temporary situation, and Westerners will eventually see the beauty of Islam as long as Muslims continue what we they are doing and try hard enough?

“The fact is, Muslims are suffering from many forms of great ignorance that prevent them from not only recognizing what their true duties as Muslims are, but of understanding exactly what is happening around them.

“How did this come about? For centuries Muslims lived under unified rule, led by successive empires, primarily the Abbassids and eventually the Ottoman Turks. Also, centuries of pious effort were exerted to codify the message of Islam into a legal system apt at governing the affairs of large civilizations. This system is known as Shariah and in Sunni Islam is divided into four mutually compatible schools, called Mathhabs.

“This Islamic legal system was the result of great vigilance with regards to the creeping influence of corruptive ideas, which would sometimes splinter into various movements and sects. However, as long as there was a political power in place, these splinter groups could be kept in check, and the sanctity of orthodox Islam proclaimed as the dominant one.

Now the article from which the above is taken goes on to apologize for the corruption of Islam and promise its restoration. In the meantime, however, the government of Islam is wreaking havoc throughout the world which, if you think about it, is pretty darn significant. It points out that Islam is not just a religion, but a “legal system apt at governing the affairs of large civilizations.” This exempts it from protection under the US Constitution! It is NOT a religion to be protected, but a usurping government system to which we must be alert!

“No meaningful dialog on Islam is possible without clearing the obstacles silencing the opposing view.

1. Intimidation inherent in challenging an ideology clearly mired in terrorism and issues.
2. Stubborn denial of conscience and strong prejudice against even considering ugly hypotheses.
3. Shunning of inductive reasoning that observes evident yet unpleasant associations.
4. Disinformation and unawareness of historical and other relevant facts.

(1) Intimidation

Blasphemy, fatwas and defamation aside, this topic is so taboo that the few who dare raise it must either remain anonymous or fear for their security. The case against Islam is so suppressed that it is conspicuously absent from the debates. In fact, apologists so totally dominate the discourse that they have convinced the public that the politically correct media are anti-Islam for just reporting the ubiquitous violence perpetrated in its name.

(2) Denial of Conscience

Most people think they are intellectually above average (a collective impossibility), fair and open-minded. Yet most lack the courage to respond to even the most abject injustices [e. g. the classic four ghost-clad women following their husband] and failures of “alternate” cultures. Instead, they rationalize. “Our misunderstanding”, “different values”, “followers gone astray”, “usurpers sullying the good name”, etc. Few are willing to ponder, let alone admit, if a philosophy could still devastate today (call it 1913 or 1938 syndrome), especially if it were a religion, the theological sanctioning of a society. Never mind that virtually all must be false anyway, as humans create gods, not vice-versa. True open-mindedness consists of contemplating all premises and weighing the evidence, not of refusing to draw conclusions no matter how strong the case.

(3) Shunned Associative Thinking

Reasoning involves deduction and induction (the basis of the scientific process: modeling and inferring from observations, relations and patterns). The prevailing mind-set proscribes induction, since it exposes and measurably confirms the reality of ethnic behavior [e. g. Russians generally prefer Vodka; Germans beer]. Not all ethnic behavior is benign, but the unpalatable is dismissed as oversimplifying, generalizing, and stereotyping.

(4) Disinformation and Unawareness of the Past

That the general consciousness fails to identify the single most murderous force ever testifies to its sheer power. Much of history is sanitized to please it (witness W. Bush hailing Islam as a “Religion of Peace” just after, in its name, thousands of his citizens were crushed alive, and Negationism, the harmony-seeking whitewashing of Muslim atrocities in India, where the largest genocide ever occurred). This cleansing of the truth is insidious. It creates a sinister fantasy and undermines credibility.

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As Muslims burn embassies, Hillary Clinton calls Islam “a great religion”

If she meant great at killing and destroying she’d be correct. via Hillary Clinton:

Supporters of Sunni Muslim Salafist leader Ahmad al-Assir burn an Israeli and a U.S. flag during a protest in Sidon, southern Lebanon. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho

We Reject ‘Disgusting’ Film, But All Leaders Must Reject Violence | TPM2012.

“To us, to me personally, this video is disgusting and reprehensible,” Clinton said at a meeting with Moroccan officials in Washington. “It appears to have a deeply cynical purpose to denigrate a great religion and provoke rage. But as we said yesterday, there is no justification — none at all — for responding to this video with violence.”

via Creeping Sharia

Obviously, there is much more to this discussion. Please feel free to post credible & helpful links in the comments section. I will screen them and post them as to relevancy. In the meantime, keep your heads down, your eyes open, pray for the peace of Jerusalem, and have a Plan B!