Let’s leave aside the question of what exactly are the intentions of Soros’s foundation. I happen to think that “promoting civil society and tolerance initiatives” is pretty much what it says on the tin, whereas you think it’s code for something more nefarious involving world government and importing millions of Africans into Europe. Fair enough — it’s not worth arguing about that.

My question is: do you really believe a $32B fund is nearly enough to enact the kind of change and influence that you’re attributing to Soros? It’s certainly a large personal fortune, but it doesn’t move the needle very much when you’re assuming that he’s actually buying out governments of dozens of countries.

A fund of that size would probably spend 1-2 billion yearly. (He’s not going to blow the entire 32 billion wad in one shot — otherwise, how does he bribe the politicians next year?)

So what does one get with a billion? Unfortunately most of the money spent by the foundations is publicly accounted for, in various boring things like grants to academic sociologists... So let’s assume that 20% of the money is used to buy influence. 200 million is not a lot to spend globally.

In comparison, the Hungarian government spent an estimated 20 million on their anti-Soros billboard campaign last year. They were basically plastering bus stops with large black&white posters of Soros, a wealthy old New York Jew. You may think that was a valuable public service announcement, but maybe you can also understand why people felt that spending public money on such posters was reminiscent of 1930s Europe.