{"id":24473,"date":"2017-08-21T11:28:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T15:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24473"},"modified":"2017-08-21T11:37:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T15:37:11","slug":"soros-globalism-and-grassroots-revolt-how-the-right-uses-conspiracy-theories-to-appear-revolutionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/08\/21\/soros-globalism-and-grassroots-revolt-how-the-right-uses-conspiracy-theories-to-appear-revolutionary\/","title":{"rendered":"Soros, \u2018Globalism,\u2019 and Grassroots Revolt: How the Right Uses Conspiracy Theories to Appear Revolutionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Its Going Down!<\/em> has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/itsgoingdown.org\/george-soros-globalism-far-right-explains-revolt\/\" target=\"_blank\">Soros, \u2018Globalism,\u2019 and Grassroots Revolt: How the Right Uses Conspiracy Theories to Appear Revolutionary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAt the end of the day, the myth of Soros and the globalists is helpful to the far-Right because quite simply it explains why people revolt; for the Right, it\u2019s simple: they are paid to and on their own, are too dumb or incapable of organizing anything. This myth goes back to the anti-Semitic and racist views of old, and the anti-communist lines held by the John Birch Society that a select group of puppet masters are playing the good workers and poor in an elaborate scheme for world domination.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If people are going to publish anti-Soros propaganda, I figured that maybe i should have my own counter-propaganda ready to spring on them.<\/p>\n<p><em>Rawstory<\/em> has the article F<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2016\/08\/far-right-anti-semites-and-far-right-israel-supporters-attack-george-soros-after-email-leaks\/\" target=\"_blank\">ar-right anti-semites and far-right Israel supporters attack George Soros after email leaks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/409145052589332\/permalink\/588309371339565\/?comment_id=588374474666388&#038;reply_comment_id=588403401330162&#038;comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R2%22%7D\" target=\"_blank\">one commenter put it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMatt Love: Good on you for fighting the Soros conspiracy theories. Points subtracted for believing the idiotic Russia Russia Russia &#8482; conspiracy theories.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its Going Down! has the article Soros, \u2018Globalism,\u2019 and Grassroots Revolt: How the Right Uses Conspiracy Theories to Appear Revolutionary. At the end of the day, the myth of Soros and the globalists is helpful to the far-Right because quite simply it explains why people revolt; for the Right, it\u2019s simple: they are paid to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24473"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24476,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24473\/revisions\/24476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}