Posted on 07/02/2009 11:13:14 AM PDT by ChrisInAR
Empowerment by manufactured crisis Posted: July 02, 2009 1:00 am Eastern
© 2009
Back in January 1973, National Lampoon sported a brilliant cover – probably the satirical magazine's most famous.
A cute black and white dog was the visual element, staring ominously at a revolver pointing at his head. The headline read: "If you don't buy this magazine, we'll kill this dog."
People bought the magazine in droves, not because they believed the editors of National Lampoon were really going to kill the dog, but because it was so funny.
It strikes me that Barack Obama and the Democrat-dominated Congress are governing along the same lines. The only difference? They're not joking.
Instead of putting guns to the heads of dogs, they are manufacturing crises they claim will result in the imminent destruction of the world as we know it and demanding we buy their solution or else.
It's an old trick really. If not invented a few years before that National Lampoon cover, it was actually codified by a Marxist Columbia University professor and his research assistant in an article in The Nation May 2, 1966. The professor of social work was Richard A. Cloward, and his research assistant was Frances Fox Piven. What they authored became known as "the Cloward-Piven Strategy of Orchestrated Crisis."
Cloward and Piven specifically calculated their strategy as a way to end poverty by bringing the capitalist system to collapse through a series of escalating demands that could never be met.
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End poverty my backside. This is nothing but crippling the American citizen by weakening them financially to the point where they are dependant on the fed govt. Once they have a majority of the population dependant on them, they then have their votes. This is nothing but a huge power grap over the American people’s power. The control freaks are going for broke now that they have both houses and a rubber stamp in the WH.
Their strategy as a way to end poverty by bringing the capitalist system to collapse through a series of escalating demands that could never be met.
And Obama has placed that strategy into action.
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