Soros and the steak commandos

Protected by vast oceans as well as by a dual-citizenship status where as one who openly desires the downfall of a legitimately elected president, this wealthy person can, indeed, undermine and perhaps even fund the failure of democracy. Empowered by wealth, he can afford to be brazen. Born during the Great Depression in Hungary, once a satellite state of the Soviet Union, living in distant Europe and enjoying the privileges provided by money and the media, Gyorgy “George” Soros has declared his desire to see President Donald J. Trump fall and fail. 

The wires reported that, “Democratic donor George Soros said in an interview that “people like me” would like President-elect Donald Trump to fail as president.”

In Davos he also said, “I personally am convinced that he (Trump) is going to fail. Not because of people like me who would like him to fail. But because his ideas that guide him are inherently self-contradictory and the contradictions are actually already embodied by his advisers…and his Cabinet.”

Under a presidential system, the Cabinet is comprised of the president’s alter-egos. Naturally, they embody what the president embodies. Moreover, the uniqueness and strength of the president Soros chose to deny lies in inherent ironies and their reconciliation through the mandate Trump had won. Trump is an upper-crust billionaire. Yet his platform is focused on the lowly working man. His is the most powerful job on the planet. Yet he does not need it. He is now part of the establishment. Yet he ran on an anti-establishment agenda.

If, for Soros, contradictions spell failure, that Trump won the presidency founded on the working man’s mandate, at the hands of the economically weak and against the established ruling class proves that the inherently impossible is possible.

The chemistry of personal influences mixed in with the professional cannot be discounted when discerning such radical forecasts of desired doom. When Wall Street posted historic highs, repeatedly, and unabatedly, thus far, the prosperity suddenly gained by investors in the capital markets resulted in over a billion losses for Soros, known mostly for profiting from crashing markets. Soros did not and generally does not make his money from economic upswings as Trump’s economic agenda proposes. Google him. He is brilliant. Soros’s wealth has been largely a product of strategically divining economic failures, downturns and financial crashes.

For sure, his loss this time is doubly painful. This helps us understand the underlying foundations of his prediction that Trump’s economy, and the economic platform supported by the millions betting on Trump to make America great again will crash and burn. Soros had not only lost a billion in his failed investments but because he bankrolled Hillary Clinton, as did a good number of Wall Street businessmen pump donations into the Clinton foundation in exchange for either access to or greater influence over the White House; his reasons are clear and apparent.

Lucky for him. Soros does not live in the United States where, in characteristically elitist rhetoric, his open desire for a collapse of a Trump-invigorated economy will be inflicted on others, not on him.

By bankrolling a loser, Soros’s vitriol and polemic are uncannily familiar. Most Filipinos worked for their wealth. Some inherited it. Others simply married it. The Duterte administration had recently accused certain personalities in New York, comfortably protected by distance, dark blue passports and gold-gilded wealth, of plotting Duterte’s premature downfall and ouster.

It is one thing to advocate, fund and support the candidacy of a presidential contender, but where another is eventually legitimately chosen by a sovereign electorate, to plot against a legal presidency is another thing.

Soros’s politics is politics with a plus ultra. He parlays his wealth into political activism and has often been on the opposite side of American economic policies. There’s nothing wrong with that. His is political activism is with dollar signs. The same with our modern-day steak commandos.

Both bankrolled a loser and that perhaps compels a repayment, however late in the day. It’s just business. Wealth provides a convenient podium where those condemned to poverty, unable to earn, inherit or marry money, have neither pedestals nor bullhorns save for their right to suffrage. It is thus, profoundly predatory for those comfortably lying on a bed of money to plot the ouster and wish upon a duly elected leadership ill-will and failure where those impact negatively on the mandate bequeathed by the suffrage rights of the majority.

Trump is the legitimate American president. So is Rodrigo R. Duterte, ours with the highest performance-approval ratings to boot. Soros profited from failures in an economy and ironically, albeit effectively, he gains from the misery of others. Somewhere in there is a moral dilemma. In our case there looms an alleged “Plan B” and the failed ambitions of losers who insidiously maneuver public opinion to delegitimize a legitimate mandate.

There, the moral dilemma turns into plainly poisonous political partisanship.