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Cloward and Piven are laughing all the way to the welfare agency
American Thinker ^ | 24 Feb, 2023 | Brian Wilson

Posted on 02/24/2023 6:50:45 PM PST by MtnClimber

One of the most insidious strategies ever devised to destroy the United States is coming to foul fruition.

Remember that famous recurring line from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?

Worse than the Pinkerton agents to Butch and Sundance, Cloward and Piven are to the stability and future of America.

If the Cloward-Piven Strategy is new to you, Fred Elbel's "Cloward–Piven strategy - fundamentally transforming America" does an outstanding job breaking it down into bite-size pieces.

Basically:

[D]eveloped in 1966 by Americans Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven — both sociologists and political activists ... [t]he strategy focused on overloading the United States public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis, which would ultimately lead to replacing the welfare system with a national system of "a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty.

It worked pretty well — so well, in fact, the outline has been applied in many instances to bring about the disruption of public programs, policies and systems:

-1965 Immigration Act

-2008 Financial Crisis

-2014 Border crisis — Unaccompanied Alien Children

-2015 Syrian refugees — importing terrorism

Time marches on and the Cloward–Piven strategy, as Elbel puts it, "remains an active instrument of change in America. Ultimately, it is the tool by which multicultural elites aim to "fundamentally transform America."

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: cloward; clowardpiven; clowardpivenstrategy; communism; piven; welfare

1 posted on 02/24/2023 6:50:45 PM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The plan to collapse the US economy to show that the Free Enterprise System does not work and to replace it with communism.


2 posted on 02/24/2023 6:50:58 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

“Remember that famous recurring line from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?

“Think you used enough dynamite Butch?”


3 posted on 02/24/2023 7:38:43 PM PST by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: MtnClimber

Open Borders and putting 5 MILLION, so far, on our WELFARE ROLLS!! OVERLOAD the system til it breaks!


4 posted on 02/24/2023 11:40:49 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: MtnClimber
The only thing that can possibly save us from the Cloward-Piven Strategy is that the Clinton/Obama holdovers who are wielding it also have the “The Dunning–Kruger effect :
“The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias whereby people with low ability, expertise, or experience regarding a certain type of a task or area of knowledge tend to overestimate their ability or knowledge.”

5 posted on 02/25/2023 10:36:07 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("There is no good government at all & none possible."--Mark Twain)
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