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Related: What We Face From 2007, and from 2013: The Threat We Face Both great articles.

"Cloward and Piven charged that the ruling classes used welfare to weaken the poor; that by providing a social safety net, the rich doused the fires of rebellion. Poor people can advance only when "the rest of society is afraid of them," Cloward told The New York Times on September 27, 1970. Rather than placating the poor with government hand-outs, wrote Cloward and Piven, activists should work to sabotage and destroy the welfare system; the collapse of the welfare state would ignite a political and financial crisis that would rock the nation; poor people would rise in revolt; only then would "the rest of society" accept their demands."

"You can see where I am going. The radical left and the national Democratic Party are increasingly one-and-the-same. Their relentless efforts to open the floodgates of illegal immigration and pack the voter rolls will illegal immigrant voters have the same objective: to overwhelm our government with an impossible flood of new problems and balkanize our society, while stacking the voter rolls with newly-minted democrats who will unwittingly support the radicals in their subversive efforts to destroy this country in favor of their socialist vision. It is Cloward-Piven on steroids."

"The Democrats made immigration a burning issue in very real hopes of destroying the Republican Party now. They almost succeeded, but instead it backfired. And while the immigration bill cloture vote may indeed have lost Republicans some support among Latino open-border proponents, what the Republican Party got back was its soul - a very worthwhile trade. Conservatives face high hurdles for 2008, but if this kind of principled behavior can be replicated again and again with the many more divisive issues Democrats plan to dump on us between now and then, Republicans will once again be able to draw a clear distinction between themselves as the party of principle and responsibility and the craven, fanatic, blatantly self-serving and willfully destructive Democrats."

"We cannot afford to quit. This may be our last chance."

More James Simpson article Here Good stuff. . Education is the Key. .

I wonder if Jesse Watters asked people on the street about the Cloward-Piven strategy, how many would know?