My brother is an intelligent man. Sure, he’s conservative (he’s a banker...what else could he be), but he’s not lock-step with the wackos who have taken over the Republican Party. He’s also onboard with the need for alternative energy—he’s gung-ho over a plan for us to pool our money with like-minded people to build windmills. So a conversation we had over Christmas caught me off guard.
"You know what happened," he said. "George Soros was pumping billions into speculation on oil prices, and it drove them up, which in turn started the economic collapse." I didn’t know where to begin. George Soros? He’s the bogeyman of the Right, and I have little doubt that he got that information from Faux News. But my own brother? His words are just the tip of the iceberg of the accusations making the rounds.
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