Cloward-Piven Government

American Thinker ^ | November 23, 2009 | James Simpson

[neverdem]

It is time to cast aside all remaining doubt. President Obama is not trying to lead America forward to recovery, prosperity and strength. Quite the opposite, in fact.

In September of last year, American Thinker published my article, Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis. Part of a series, it connected then presidential candidate Barack Obama to individuals and organizations practicing a malevolent strategy for destroying our economy and our system of government. Since then the story of that strategy has found its way across the blogosphere, onto the airwaves of radio stations across the country, the Glenn Beck television show, Bill O'Reilly and now Mark Levin.

The methodology is known as the Cloward-Piven Strategy, and we can all be grateful to David Horowitz and his Discover the Networks for originally exposing and explaining it to us. He describes it as:

The strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis. The "Cloward-Piven Strategy" 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.

Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven were two lifelong members of Democratic Socialists of America and taught sociology at Columbia University (Piven later went on to City University of New York). In a May, 1966 Nation magazine article titled "The Weight of the Poor," they outlined their strategy, proposing to use grassroots radical organizations to push ever more strident demands for public services at all levels of government.

The result, they predicted, would be "a profound financial and political crisis" that would unleash "powerful forces ... for major economic reform at the national level."

They implemented the Strategy by creating a succession of radical organizations but most notably the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), with the help of veteran organizer Wade Rathke. Their crowning achievement was the "Motor Voter" act, signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1993 with Cloward and Piven standing behind him.

As we now know, ACORN was one of the chief drivers of high-risk mortgage lending that eventually led to the financial crisis. But the Motor Voter law was another component of the strategy. It created vast vulnerabilities in our electoral system which ACORN then exploited.

ACORN's vote registration scandals throughout the U.S. are predictable fallout.

The Motor Voter law has also been used to open another vulnerability in the system: the registration of vast numbers of illegal aliens, who then vote reliably Democrat. Herein lies the real reason Democrats are so anxious for open borders, security be damned.

It should be clear to anyone with a mind and two eyes that this president and this Congress do not have our interests at heart. They are implementing this strategy on an unprecedented scale by flooding America with a tidal wave of poisonous initiatives, orders, regulations and laws. As Rahm Emmanuel said, "A crisis is a terrible thing to waste."

The real goal of "healthcare" legislation, the real goal of "cap and trade," the real goal of "stimulus" is to rip the guts out of our private economy and transfer wide swaths of it over to government control. Do not be deluded by the propaganda. These initiatives are vehicles for change. They are not goals in and of themselves, except in their ability to deliver power, and will make matters much worse, for that is their design.

This time, in addition to overwhelming the government with demands for services, Obama and the Democrats are overwhelming political opposition to their plans with a flood of apocalyptic legislation. Their ultimate goal is to leave us so discouraged, demoralized and exhausted that we throw our hands up in defeat. As Barney Frank said "the middle class will be too distracted to fight."

These people are our enemies. They don't use guns, yet, but they are just as dangerous, determined and duplicitous as the communists we faced in the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam and bush wars across the globe, and the Nazis we faced in World War II.

It is time we fully internalized and digested this fact, with all its ugly ramifications. These people have violated countless laws, and could be prosecuted, had we the political power. Not only are their policies unconstitutional, but deliberately so - the goal being to make the Constitution irrelevant. Their spending is off the charts and will drive us into hyperinflation, but could be rescinded, had we the political power. These policies are toxic, but could be stopped and reversed, had we the political power. Their ideologies are poisonous, but could be exposed for what they are, with long jail sentences as an object lesson, had we the political power.

Every single citizen who cares about this country should be spending every minute of his/her spare time lobbying, organizing, writing and planning. Fight every initiative they launch. It is all destructive. If we are to root out this evil, it is critical that in 2010 we win competent, principled leaders willing to defend our constitution and our country. Otherwise the malevolent cabal that occupies the seat of government today will become too entrenched.

After that all bets are off.

Businessman and Examiner.com columnist Jim Simpson is a former White House staff economist and budget analyst. You may read more of his articles on his blog, Truth and Consequences.

[Rome2000]

Their ideologies are poisonous, but could be exposed for what they are, with long jail sentences as an object lesson, had we the political power.

The retarded country clubbers over at the RNC could be exposing these commie bastards now.

Instead we have this:

Steele is against a resolution renaming the Democratic Party.’

RNC showdown over ‘socialist’ resolution may be avoided Posted: May 20th, 2009 06:00 AM ET

From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby

Steele is against a resolution renaming the Democratic Party.’ OXON HILL, Maryland (CNN) — Members of the Republican National Committee appear to have reached a compromise that would let GOP leaders avoid a possible dispute over a controversial resolution that calls on Democrats to re-name their party the “Democrat Socialist party.”

Steele has come out against the resolution, calling it “not an appropriate way to express our views on the issues of the day.” One of Steele’s allies on the committee, Florida GOP chairman Jim Greer, told CNN the resolution is “stupid” and “ridiculous.”

However, New Jersey committeeman David Norcross, one of the sponsors of the resolution, told CNN the language is being massaged so that Steele and others on the committee will be more receptive.

“The language is being changed so that the proposers and chairman Steele are on the same page,” Norcross said.

He said that as of Tuesday afternoon, the chairman of the RNC Standing Committee on Resolutions had changed the language to “condemn the Democrats’ march to socialism” instead of “talking about the ‘Democrat Socialist’ party.”

The change was made, Norcross said, so that members “wouldn’t have to fight about it, and I think everybody agreed.”

Wisconsin GOP chairman Reince Priebus, another Steele ally, expressed confidence the proposal will be tweaked in the resolution committee, and that it should pass without issue.

We have to fight and win against the bastards at the RNC first before we have a shot at taking on the commies.

[Squantos]

Agree.

[oprahstheantichrist]

Thanks for the sobering ping. I didn’t realize Mark Levin was onto this, now maybe it’ll get some legs.

Anyone a Rush 24/7 subscriber?

[Jess Kitting]

had we the political power

The author repeats this phrase a few times.

He is implying that we could do it, if we had the political power, which presumably we don't.

Is that right, folks? Do we really not have the political power to stop the constitution and country from being destroyed by the Obamamites?

[XenaLee]

Timing is everything.

[plsjr]

done - thanks for the suggestion.

[XenaLee]

The RNC could have been demanding answers on why Zero sealed his records on his FIRST DAY in office. They could have been demanding answers on why the lamestream leftist media refused to report ANY uncomfortable facts or truths about Zero. They could have even been demanding that the media report the FACT that Reid & Pelosi’s MANDATORY health insurance crap is unconstitutional and UNAMERICAN.

Yeah, the GOP & RNC could have been doing a lot of things over the past year. IF ONLY they had a full set of balls among them. But noooooo!

Most people here seem to think that we can fix the GOP in time, which we really don’t have considering the warp speed at which the leftists are destroying our economy and taking control, and with a lot MORE hard work than has already been put in. I somehow doubt that. We might just need to start all over....anew.

[livius]

Fight every initiative they launch. It is all destructive.

That's the only way to do it, but we are sadly lacking in party-level leadership.

[Old_Grouch]

They don't use guns, yet, but they are just as dangerous, determined and duplicitous as the communists we faced in the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam and bush wars across the globe,

They ARE the communists we faced, and they have infiltrated all our institutions, and we are still facing them.

[ClearCase_guy]

Do we really not have the political power to stop the constitution and country from being destroyed by the Obamamites?

Remains to be seen. All I can say is that the GOP is actively fighting against its Conservative base, so I'm not aware of a major political party that is working to save the Constitution. Also, election fraud seems widespread, with groups like ACORN successfully subverting the voting process, and I'm not aware of a major political party that thinks election reform is an interesting topic.

If we take to the streets (with more than signs) then the people have the ultimate political power. But aside from Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck, there are few people working to organize the effort.

[RoadTest]

“it is critical that in 2010 we win competent, principled leaders”

But how can we if they engineer the voting and vote-counting processes the way they did to install an illegitimate Presdent?

[antisocial]

Bookmark

[PGalt]

OUTSTANDING article by James Simpson! Thanks for posting. OUTSTANDING thread. Thanks to every linker/researcher/educator/poster/like-minded lurker.

BUMP-TO-THE-TOP!

[thirst4truth]

Good points. McCain could have brought alot of this up in the campaign. "I turned over my birth certificate and college admission records, how come my opponent does not?"

McCain will be allowed to stay in the collapse since he didn't go too far questioning our dear leader, I see no fire in the belly out there in the hinterlands. A few, but very few are even interested in what DC is doing. They are struggling, trying to make ends meet, looking for work and food. They don't have time to check the powers that be.

When I talk to my co workers and aquaintences about what we talk about here they think I am a radical loon. I try to be calm and patient, ask them to write their senators and tell them not to vote for the health care bill, they look at me like I am a space alien.

I think we have lost, it is just too much work, too hard and most Americans, God bless their hearts, are too lazy.

[GOPJ]

The Motor Voter law has also been used to open another vulnerability in the system: the registration of vast numbers of illegal aliens, who then vote reliably Democrat. Herein lies the real reason Democrats are so anxious for open borders, security be damned.

bump to t he top...

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[bamahead]

The real goal of "healthcare" legislation, the real goal of "cap and trade," the real goal of "stimulus" is to rip the guts out of our private economy and transfer wide swaths of it over to government control.



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[KTM rider]

This is pretty obvious, yet esoteric. the generic liberal on the street would say "so what,... socialism is awesome".

One of their favorite arguments is " so look at what the republicans did while they were in control for the last 8 years and show me it's any different"

[R0CK3T]

Didn’t Bolsheviks basically try this in Europe/Germany in the 30’s?

See what it got them...

[TigersEye]

bttt and bookmarked

This needs to be spread far and wide.