# Explain George Soros as The Bogeyman to me **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 10, 2017, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-george-soros-as-the-bogeyman-to-me/784143 "2017-04-10T01:19:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-george-soros-as-the-bogeyman-to-me/784143/21 "2017-04-10T23:50:39Z")
He’s a currency manipulator who helped crash The Bank of England and pocketed over a billion dollars by doing so. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-george-soros-as-the-bogeyman-to-me/784143/22 "2017-04-11T18:13:17Z")
> [@drewder](#): > > He’s a currency manipulator who helped crash The Bank of England and pocketed over a billion dollars by doing so. So, being a successful businessman, one would expect the GOP would love him and vote for him for President? ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-george-soros-as-the-bogeyman-to-me/784143/23 "2017-04-11T18:59:52Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > I’d agree he’s basically the right’s version of the Kochs. Both sides have various oligarchs they blame for their side’s inability to win. Except, the Kochs, for the most part, have gotten bigger bang for their buck than Soros. ---
**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-george-soros-as-the-bogeyman-to-me/784143/24 "2017-04-11T20:44:54Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > So, being a successful businessman, one would expect the GOP would love him and vote for him for President? People who admire businessmen admire people who build things not those who tear down societies and get rich from the ashes. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-george-soros-as-the-bogeyman-to-me/784143/25 "2017-04-12T01:53:49Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > Although Soros is Jewish, he was apparently shielded from Nazis as a teenager by people who helped him hide his Judiasm. This has been co-opted into rumors that he outed other Jews to the Nazis. So you’ll hear rumblings that he is/was a secret Nazi. A secret Nazi who funds lefty causes, which somehow makes sense to the Nazi whisperers. The man his father paid to take him in and pretended he was his godfather was a government official who worked with the Nazis. In his 60 Minutes interview Soros talks about accompanying him on his rounds confiscating Jewish property. Soros was 14-15 at the time. Living with an adult who worked with Nazis doesn’t make him a Nazi but he wasn’t Anne Frank either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-george-soros-as-the-bogeyman-to-me/784143.md?page=1)