I have posted often on the danger George Soros represents. Without considering whether he exercises more control over the Democrat party than Andy Stern, there is no doubt he is a malevolent influence. Here is an old post of mine on the subject:
The problem is that all the levers of political power , with few exceptions, are in his hands. The article points out how he controls Democrat money through a series of 527 sham entities. It is not just Soros' own money or the money of his own trusts, he now has control of virtually all the money flowing into the Democrat party. In addition, he's well on his way to controlling most of the money that gets donated to political campaigns or is detoured into 527s. That means the pickings get smaller for Republicans.
Combine this with the ability of Obama to shake down our major corporations and trade organizations out of sheer fear of what he will do to them, and you have even more money diverted. It need not be said that in addition to a financial shakedown, Obama has already demonstrated his ability to move these entities into his support column even when the support his radical program is clearly not in their interests. One need only name AARP or the American Medical Association to give an idea of the grave threat presented on this front.
But the threat posed by Soros is not limited to the money he controls. By virtue of his control of MoveOn.org and Huffington Post and so forth, he has a great deal of power over the Internet. We already know that Obama does not need much power over the conventional media outlets because he already has it.
As demonstrated in the last election, the Soros groups can put boots on the ground in virtually any precinct he chooses and he has great resources to mobilize a rent-a- mob to disrupt town hall meetings and to discredit tea party patriots by making them look aggressive.
We have seen bosses controlling patronage and ethnic groups throughout American history but the scope of their influence has usually been limited to cities or occasionally to a state or even a few states. In Soros we see the embodiment of bossism spanning the entire nation.
When one combines this kind of power in a Marxist in a world in which there is virtually no institutional check or balance, the threat to the republic is apparent. How much can one expect of Blue Dog Democrats when they know that they will get no money for their own campaign but instead will be confronted in a primary challenge by a well-funded Soros loyalist and overwhelmed by a wave of foot soldiers? Just as no one could stand up to the bosses of Tammany Hall, no elected official will be able to stand up against George Soros if he decides to turn the screws.
You're not exactly right either.
The SEIU and the Shadow Party pretty much work together. Sort of like Banks and Holding Companies. They use and depend on each other.
This 2007 article explains a lot:
(It's amazing how in hindsight these insights make perfect sense, in 2007 it wasn't a reality) SEIU Soros and the Shadow Democratic Party When one watches the protest by the SEIU on Monday, one will be seeing:
A.Union
"The current President of SEIU is the former New Leftist Andrew Stern, who advanced to the Union’s top post in 1996 when his predecessor, John Sweeney, became President of the AFL-CIO. At the outset of his tenure with SEIU, Stern told his members that he expected "every leader at every level of this union -- from the international President to the rank-and-file member -- to devote five working days this year to political action."
The union can put 1.8 million workers (Not counting family and Friends) x 5 working days = 9 Million man days to work on electing Democrats. SCARY
"In effect, this was a mandate for those union leaders to work in support of the Democratic Party."
" Stern sits on the Executive Committee of America Coming Together, a Democratic Party auxiliary funded by George Soros. Moreover, SEIU is a major component of the so-called “Shadow Democratic Party,” a nationwide network of more than five-dozen unions, nonprofit activist groups, and think tanks whose agendas are ideologically to the left, and which are engaged in campaigning for the Democrats." " Designated as a “527 organization” (so named in reference to Section 527 of the U.S. tax code), SEIU is not required to register as a “political organization” with the Federal Election Commission, and consequently may collect as much “soft money” as it wishes, with no limits on how much it may receive from individuals or corporations. This money, in turn, is funneled to Democratic candidates, political action committees, and other “527” groups pursuing similar agendas."
B.Shadow
" The Shadow Party was conceived and organized principally by George Soros, Hillary Clinton and Harold McEwan Ickes -- all identified with the Democratic Party left."
C. All parties need Money
" It was the Democrats - and George Soros in particular - who had been pushing McCain-Feingold for years."
If the fact that just one organization, ran by a Soros associate, can put 9 million man days into defeating America, and there are many more organizations with the same aims; doesn't scare one into wondering if America can survive, I don't know what will. Especially when that group controls most of the health care, property care, and public employees of the United States. A group that coordinate their activities with George Soros and Hillary Clinton.