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The Summer of Cloward-Piven
American Thinker ^ | 17 Jun, 2025 | Brian C. Joondeph

Posted on 06/17/2025 3:59:10 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The migrant riots were about causing chaos, not about advocating for illegal aliens.

The "Summer of Love" of 2020 refers to the period of social unrest, protests, riots, and billions of dollars in property damage following the death of George Floyd that May.

It involved widespread demonstrations against law enforcement and perceived racial injustice, fueled by the Black Lives Matter movement and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Five years later, just a few weeks before summer officially begins, we are kicking off the “Summer of Cloward-Piven.”

Cloward-Piven is rarely mentioned by corporate media and is seldom heard from the lips of elected officials.

Instead, it is regarded as a conspiracy theory only discussed on A.M. talk radio by knuckle-dragging, white, heterosexual, Christian Trump supporters.

Oh, it’s real, but it’s just not discussed in polite and enlightened communities, much like COVID vaccine injuries, stolen elections, or the deep state.

Wikipedia offers a summary that includes the two Columbia University professors after whom the strategy is named.

The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. The strategy aims to utilize "militant anti-poverty groups" to facilitate a "political crisis" by overloading the welfare system via an increase in welfare claims, forcing the creation of a system of guaranteed minimum income and "redistributing income through the federal government."

Note the words “militant,” “crisis,” and “overloading.”

Are these terms applicable today, 60 years after the two Columbia professors outlined their plan to turn America into Cuba or the Soviet Union? They published their manifesto in the leftist publication, The Nation, in 1966, which I will summarize.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: leftism

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1 posted on 06/17/2025 3:59:10 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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The MSM are fully aware that this is going on, but they will not mention it.


2 posted on 06/17/2025 4:00:02 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


3 posted on 06/17/2025 4:04:36 AM PDT by nopardons
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Aren’t C and P still alive?


4 posted on 06/17/2025 4:13:36 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: MtnClimber

later


5 posted on 06/17/2025 4:15:46 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

The left has been building to this for some time. Republicans ignore it, which is a shame.

Every bizarre thing/position, the libs embrace to torment chaos and breakdown society norms and morals and eventually assume control.

The three P’s are important

Pray
Prepare
Pass the word.


6 posted on 06/17/2025 4:19:15 AM PDT by SteelPSUGOP (UGHT)
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To: MtnClimber

The leaders of deceit, destruction and death need to be eliminated for truth, creation and life to survive. Domestic evil and foreign evil.


7 posted on 06/17/2025 4:43:14 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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CP Strategy-overwhelm the system til it collapses. The question is to what? Heard a “protester” say,”Burn it down. We’ll rebuild to our liking.” (Coulda been in our image, accent distorted) does that mean a Third world State?


8 posted on 06/17/2025 4:47:48 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth Beauty and Goodness)
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To: SteelPSUGOP

Why aren’t people being arrested and imprisoned instead of being let go with no charges.


9 posted on 06/17/2025 4:50:31 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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”Burn it down. We’ll rebuild to our liking.”

Said by people who have never built anything in their life.

10 posted on 06/17/2025 4:54:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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11 posted on 06/17/2025 4:54:42 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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Heard a “protester” say,”Burn it down. We’ll rebuild to our liking.”

If they don't like the way things work now, just wait until they "burn it down." It will not be "re-built" in a way they hope it will.

12 posted on 06/17/2025 5:07:35 AM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: MtnClimber

One of the best and most important articles one can read.

Hopefully, a lot of people do read it and catch on to what the game that we are being played with .


13 posted on 06/17/2025 5:12:48 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

She is, he died. They married!


14 posted on 06/17/2025 5:15:37 AM PDT by Jolla
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C and P at the Bill Clinton "Motor Voter" law signing:


15 posted on 06/17/2025 5:26:59 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Someone went there.

More legacy of Zero. They are well-entrenched. Deeply.

We MUST demonstrate resolve by turning out to vote en masse.

At a bare minimum.

Conflict is looming...


16 posted on 06/17/2025 5:51:11 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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“forcing the creation of a system of guaranteed minimum income and “redistributing income through the federal government.”

This is possibly the single main point of failure among the left. Income is earned, not distributed. They believe some didn’t get a big enough slice of the pie, so they must magnanimously redistribute the pie, while conservatives believe we should make more pie.


17 posted on 06/17/2025 5:51:50 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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Side note:

When I cite ‘conflict’ I mean taking on the leaders, not their useful idiots.

That means first exposing them. Now.


18 posted on 06/17/2025 5:57:09 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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As any good Communist will tell you, “The road to power is through class warfare.”


19 posted on 06/17/2025 6:18:23 AM PDT by batazoid (Natural born citizen)
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2025 - The Summer of Shove


20 posted on 06/17/2025 6:28:23 AM PDT by farm_kid (How long do you have to be signed up to be allowed to update your profile?)
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