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Palin, Cloward, Piven and Kafka
American Thinker ^ | 7/4/2009 | Tom Suhadolnik

Posted on 07/04/2009 11:44:09 AM PDT by Aria

What happened to Sarah Palin is a political game changer on the national level. It also may be a preview of what every American may face in a few years.

The 18 ethics charges filed since she rose to prominence in Republican circles might be the first time the left has successfully used the Cloward-Piven Strategy to stop an individual politician on the national level.

For those who do not know, the strategy was developed in the late 1960s by two sociologists at Columbia. In a nutshell it seeks to "hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse".

It was implemented in NYC where activists on the left lobbied for new social programs then worked to fill the rosters. By the early 1970s there was one person on welfare for every two working in NYC. This nearly resulted in NYC declaring bankruptcy in 1975, averted only by a federal emergency loan.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clowardpiven; elections; gopimplosion; palin; palinresignation; quitter; resignation; sarahbarraquitta; waronsarah
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The left is relentless and merciless. There are some good comments after the article including:

And the public wonders why conservatives tend to stay away from politics. It's an ugly game played by nasty people who know no rules or boundaries.

I'm reminded of the opening lines from The Chronicles of Riddick. To paraphrase...

Usually, evil is confronted by good. Sometimes, evil must be met by a different kind of evil.

1 posted on 07/04/2009 11:44:09 AM PDT by Aria
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To: Aria
And...

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

Doing the right thing isn't always easy, but it's ALWAYS right!

2 posted on 07/04/2009 11:45:54 AM PDT by NordP (BHO's new book, "To Serve Man/United States" --- NO NO NO....RUN....it's a COOKBOOK!)
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To: SolidWood

Now things are getting serious.


3 posted on 07/04/2009 11:48:08 AM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: Aria

Remind me. How many colleges did she “quit”?


4 posted on 07/04/2009 11:49:28 AM PDT by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)
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To: Aria

I’m wondering Palin’s action is a case of retreat and regroup, or of taking the football and going home.

We’ll see.


5 posted on 07/04/2009 11:50:22 AM PDT by wolfpat (Moderate=Clueless)
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To: Aria

And sometimes in a fight, it is necessary to parry.

Palin Parried.

Can’t wait for the thrust.


6 posted on 07/04/2009 11:51:01 AM PDT by Safrguns
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To: hoosiermama
to stop an individual politician on the national level

State level. The national level is now Palin's stage.

7 posted on 07/04/2009 11:51:05 AM PDT by SolidWood (Palin isn't retreating, but taking the fight in another direction.)
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To: Glenn

Was it just Harvard Kennedy was thrown out of?


8 posted on 07/04/2009 11:51:47 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: Aria; All

Excuse me .. Sarah WON against all the charges.

I don’t see as how the left won anything .. in fact, this harassment by the left has only propelled her into the spotlight and exposed the left for their mean spirtedness.


9 posted on 07/04/2009 11:52:36 AM PDT by CyberAnt (Michael Yon: "The U.S. military is the most respected institution in Iraq.")
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To: Glenn
How many colleges did she “quit”?

?

10 posted on 07/04/2009 11:53:19 AM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: CyberAnt

The charges were dismissed but the legal costs were there.


11 posted on 07/04/2009 11:53:56 AM PDT by SolidWood (Palin isn't retreating, but taking the fight in another direction.)
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To: hoosiermama

‘Getting serious’? Are you serious? ... The democrat party has been run by dead-soul people for so long that the American voters who keep returning these scum to office don’t and cannot discern the deadness in the soul of pols like Waxman, Boxer, Kennedy, Harkin, Reid, Pelosi, Obama, etc. Until Americans stand up to the thuggery of the democrap party and its fifth column enemedia, and openly shame them for their filthiness, ‘serious’ isn’t even on the radar.


12 posted on 07/04/2009 11:54:00 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: NordP
Letterman was the first to learn the lesson that things are taking a new direction, we are mad as hell, and we will not be taking it anymore!
if obama found himself complaining about a single tv station with a huge megaphone, wait til Palin along with talk radio really start taking it to him.

He is going to have a bumpy ride

13 posted on 07/04/2009 11:54:17 AM PDT by pennboricua
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To: Aria
Convert, submit, or die, per se, is not an evil demand. It is a righteous demand when insisted on by free men.

Got to get back to the farm.


14 posted on 07/04/2009 11:54:24 AM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: wolfpat

I don’t assume everyone wants to put themselves and their families through the meat grinder of our politics. Hillary and Bill trained Chelsea as a child to understand nasty things would be said - I thought it sounded like child abuse - but they all knew it was coming and obviously they considered their ambition more important than their daughter’s chance at a normal life. Maybe Sarah doesn’t want to go about it that way. Maybe she’ll be a force but as an independent citizen. I think she can do a lot that way.

We’ll see. Personally, if Sarah were my sister I’d probably tell her to enjoy her family and her life. Who needs the misery. That being said, I really wish she’d go for it to save us from the dirty rats.


15 posted on 07/04/2009 11:55:46 AM PDT by Aria ( "The US republic will endure until Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the people's $.")
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I’m so happy to be away from their clutches. These people are going to destroy all that was good in America.


16 posted on 07/04/2009 11:55:55 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (www.publishedauthors.net/benmaxwell/index.html. Donate to members.tripod.com/tva_israel/HOME.HTM)
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To: SolidWood

Yes, I knew that!

And .. now that she is not encumbured by the governorship, she can travel the lower states and gather in great sums of money to relieve her of that debt.

In the meantime, she can show the rest of the country her genuine self .. and let people know who she is .. not the characterization of the left.


17 posted on 07/04/2009 11:57:41 AM PDT by CyberAnt (Michael Yon: "The U.S. military is the most respected institution in Iraq.")
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To: Glenn
Remind me. How many colleges did she “quit”?

Remind me of the colleges the Bushes, Clintons, and Obama didn't quit. Could they be Yale and Harvard??? Hmmmm!

18 posted on 07/04/2009 11:58:16 AM PDT by lonestar (Obama is turning Bush's "mess" into a catastrophe.)
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To: Glenn
How many colleges did she “quit”?

Nor do I recall her books saying she "did a little blow when she could afford it."

19 posted on 07/04/2009 11:59:27 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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