Gloria Guillo, November 10th 2025
Soros Once Crashed a Currency. Now His Network Is Betting on Progressive Chaos in America’s Biggest Cities to Create a Color Revolution That Takes Down the United States for Globalists
George Soros made his name in 1992 by betting against the British pound, forcing the Bank of England to lose billions and leave the . He saw weakness, funded the pressure points, and made $1 billion when the pound sterling collapsed. Now, at 94, he’s doing the same thing — not with money, but with US cities.
His project: Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old who just won New York City’s mayoral race on November 4, 2025. Mamdani isn’t a real socialist. He’s an empty suit — a smooth-talking opportunist who says what the so-called Left wants to hear while being built by billionaire cash.
How did he win? Soros money. Some estimates suggest that over $40 million flowed through nonprofits like Bend the Arc and the Working Families Party to pay for door-knocking, TikTok ads, and rallies. It wasn’t grassroots — it was astroturf: fake people-power funded by tax-exempt foundations. One investigator filed 11 IRS complaints calling it a “money-laundering loop” for politics.
Mamdani promises rent freezes, free buses, and $30/hour wages — ideas that sound great on paper. But here’s the truth: These subsidies aren’t the core threat. Sudden, unmanaged population surges are the real poison — overwhelming infrastructure, services, and jobs without planning, leading to chaos, disinvestment, and exodus. The MTA’s $36 billion repair backlog is bad enough, but dump millions of new residents into a system with no new housing, schools, hospitals, or transit capacity, and the city buckles.
That’s exactly what happened in the 1960s and ’70s: NYC’s population grew by over 800,000 in a decade from migration and births, but no one built the schools, hospitals, or housing to match. Welfare rolls exploded to over 1 million by 1975, straining a budget already bleeding from federal cuts and corruption. Crime spiked not because of who moved in, but because services collapsed under volume: understaffed police, overcrowded schools, and no jobs for the influx.
The Bronx burned — not from identity, but from infrastructure failure. Over 30,000 fires in the 1970s, many from arson by landlords cashing insurance on abandoned buildings after redlining and disinvestment. The city became the biggest slumlord overnight, taking tax-foreclosed properties while closing firehouses and slashing services during the fiscal crisis.
Gangs filled the vacuum, poverty entrenched, and the middle class — of all backgrounds — fled to the suburbs. By 1975, NYC was on the brink of bankruptcy, bonds junk-rated, and President Ford’s infamous Daily News headline read “Drop Dead”. Mamdani’s vision ignores this: Subsidies without massive, planned infrastructure investment just accelerate the cycle, turning Gotham into a welfare trap that chases away taxpayers and invites more chaos.
He’s not a leader — he’s a project. His real job? Help Soros destabilize the US from the inside.
This Is a Color Revolution — US Style
Soros didn’t “push” these revolutions himself. He funded the opposition parties and groups that did the dirty work:
- Serbia (2000): Soros’s Open Society Foundations bankrolled Otpor!, the youth opposition group that sparked protests against Milošević. They got millions for training, media, and rallies — turning anger into regime change.
- Georgia (2003): OSF poured $42 million in months into opposition networks like Kmara and pro-Saakashvili parties, funding buses, TV ads, and fake roses for the crowds. Shevardnadze fell; a Soros-friendly leader rose.
- Ukraine (2004): $14 million from U.S. aid via Soros-linked NGOs went to opposition coalitions like Pora, paying for election monitors and youth camps that flipped the rigged vote.
- Kyrgyzstan (2005): OSF backed KelKel with scholarships and media gear; U.S. State Dept. funneled $12 million through Soros-linked groups for southern protests. Akaev fled; opposition formed the government.
The pattern: Spot the crack (corrupt regime), fund the fighters (opposition parties/NGOs), let them “push” with protests and polls. Soros cashes in on the new order — open markets, Western ties, globalist access.
Now he’s doing it here. Mamdani is the project in NYC, with Soros cash arming “progressive” opposition to fracture what passes for the Democratic center. But let’s be clear: There’s no real Democratic center anymore. It’s been hollowed out by oligarchs like Soros, who fund politicians across the spectrum to maintain the illusion of a left-right divide. This divide-and-conquer tactic keeps the working class splintered — pitting union workers against new arrivals, city dwellers against rural folks, progressives against moderates — ensuring a united majority never forms to demand real planning: housing, schools, transit, and jobs in time to address population surges. The ’70s collapse wasn’t about who came in - it was about volume without vision, welfare without work, and services without scale. Mamdani’s subsidies without infrastructure are a recipe for the same.
The Real Goal: Take Down America for Globalists
Soros and his allies don’t want strong cities or a strong country. They want:
- Open borders without planning
- Weak policing without backup
- High taxes without services
- Businesses fleeing from chaos
When cities collapse under unmanaged growth, the federal government steps in. That’s when globalist groups (UN, Davos, World Economic Forum) push for more control — erasing borders, centralizing power, turning the US into just another node in their one-world web. The ’70s proved it: Unplanned influxes strained welfare to breaking point (welfare rolls doubled in the 1960s), services collapsed, crime soared, and flight followed — not from people, but from failure to scale.
Oligarchs exploited the chaos, lobbying for neoliberal tax cuts to starve services while grabbing incentives. Mamdani’s win isn’t about helping New Yorkers. It’s about breaking New York — so the globalists can rebuild it their way, with Soros-funded opposition leading the charge. And it works because the oligarchy — Soros, the Kochs, the Big Tech titans — pours billions into both parties. They fund Democrats like Mamdani to promise utopia without infrastructure, while funding Republicans to fearmonger without solutions, all while the working class fights over crumbs.
As Robert Reich has warned, this is democracy vs. oligarchy, not Left vs. Right: Oligarchs use the divide to loot the nation unchecked, ensuring the 99% stays fractured and powerless — just as unplanned growth in the ’70s turned the Bronx into a bonfire.
Democratic Socialists of America: Controlled Opposition, Not Revolution
The DSA isn’t a rebel army — it’s the Democratic Party’s safety valve. Founded in 1982, it’s always been about reform, not rupture. Bernie’s 2016 surge grew it to 90,000 members, but the core rule stays: run on the Democratic line, endorse Squad stars, then follow the party whip.
At the 2023 Chicago convention, delegates voted 704–184 to ban independent tickets — explicitly to “channel social discontent” without breaking the system. It’s a steam release: Let the Left scream about socialism, then funnel them into safe primaries where they lose or get absorbed. Critics like the World Socialist Web Site call it a “loyal appendage” of the Democrats, smothering real working-class revolt by tying it to the oligarch-funded machine. Reddit threads echo this: DSA is “controlled opposition within controlled opposition,” diluting dissent into donor-friendly drips. In the ’70s, similar “progressive” pushes for welfare expansion without infrastructure planning fueled the crisis, dividing the working class by pitting strained services against growing needs.
Mamdani? A perfect DSA product — dues-paying member turned mayoral mannequin. His “socialism” is a Soros-scripted illusion, designed to contain, not conquer. It keeps the working class chasing phantom heroes, divided by the very system it pretends to fight — subsidies are dangled as bait, while volume without vision erodes the foundations.
Mamdani: The Empty Suit in Action
Born in Uganda to filmmaker Mira Nair and professor Mahmood Mamdani, Zohran Mamdani grew up in elite privilege — private schools, global travel, family wealth that could fund a small country. Yet he rails against “billionaires” from Brooklyn stages.
His platform? Vaporware that ignores history’s warnings:
- Rent freezes - Landlord disinvestment and black-market sublets, per ex-Rent Guidelines expert Leah Goodridge — echoing ’70s redlining that starved areas of investment when services failed.
- Free buses - A $1 billion annual hole with no plan to fill it, while unmanaged growth swells ridership without revenue.
- City grocery stores - A bureaucratic flop copying failed European models, blind to how ’70s welfare bloat (welfare costs tripled) turned the city into a slumlord.
Gov. Kathy Hochul said it best on MSNBC: No state money for this fantasy. He flip-flops on Israel: Condemns Hamas, calls Gaza a “genocide,” alienates Jews but keeps Soros-backed Bend the Arc ($13M from OSF since 2016). It’s identity politics as performance — Muslim for Queens, “working-class” for millennials, anti-Trump for elites. All while oligarchs like Soros laugh, funding both sides to keep the working class at each other’s throats — just as ’70s volume without planning divided communities, sparking flight and fires.
The Soros Playbook: From Abroad to Home
Soros’s Open Society Foundations has spent $25 billion since 1979 on “civil society.” In color revolutions, that means:
- Train activists
- Fund media
- Rig the narrative
- Install the replacement
In the U.S., it’s the same — just rebranded as “racial justice” or “climate action.” OSF gave $33 million to BLM-linked groups in 2020. Now? $1.4 billion in 2025 grants to opposition fronts, propping up the left-right charade that divides workers along cultural and ideological lines — much like how ’70s unplanned growth pitted strained services against growing needs, fueling resentment and exodus.
Alex Soros, the heir, celebrated Mamdani’s win with an X selfie: “Proud New Yorker! American dream lives!” It’s the ultimate oligarch flex: Fund the fracture, watch the working class fight itself.
What’s Next?
- More Mamdani projects in Chicago, LA, Philly — opposition “heroes” bankrolled by OSF grants, deepening the divide with unmanaged inflows and soft-on-crime stances.
- More Soros cash disguised as “charity” to opposition fronts on both sides, echoing ’70s fiscal tricks that hid borrowing until bankruptcy loomed.
- More chaos — crime up, taxes up, services down, until the feds (or globalists) “save” us, further eroding the sovereignty of a united working class, just as the Bronx’s ’70s inferno left scars that took decades to heal.
Trump called Mamdani a “100% Communist Lunatic.” He’s not wrong about the danger. Soros funds the opposition; they fix the revolution — all to keep the oligarchy’s divide-and-conquer alive, turning potential unity into endless flight.
Bottom Line:
The 1970s crisis wasn’t about race, migration, or even welfare alone — it was mismanagement at scale. A city that grew too fast, spent too freely, and planned too little nearly defaulted on $14 billion. The lesson for 2025? Subsidies without infrastructure are just slow-motion bankruptcy.
Soros isn’t investing in progress. He’s shorting America — funding opposition to bet it will fail, propping up a fake left-right split that conquers a divided working class, subsidized dreams be damned when volume without planning overwhelms.
And Mamdani is his project, letting the “push” come from the streets he pays for — a repeat of the ’70s, where sudden surges without infrastructure burned the Bronx and broke the city.
If NYC falls, the dominoes start. This is how nations end — not with a bang, but with a funded protest, a billionaire’s check, and a working class too divided — by chaos from lack of planning — to fight back.