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To: TigersEye

Cloward-Piven: Chaos.


12 posted on 10/25/2013 12:42:52 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: laplata; TigersEye

The following link is to an old FR thread, about an even older conservative booklet called “The Revolution Was”, written in 1938 about FDR and the New Deal. It is ALL happening again - amazingly, chillingly so.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts

An Excerpt:

Worse outwitted were those who kept trying to make sense of the New Deal from the point of view of all that was implicit in the American scheme, charging it therefore with contradiction, fallacy, economic ignorance, and general incompetence to govern.

But it could not be so embarrassed and all that line was wasted, because, in the first place, it never intended to make that kind of sense, and secondly, it took off from nothing that was implicit in the American scheme. It took off from a revolutionary base.

The design was European. Regarded from the point of view of revolutionary technic it made perfect sense. Its meaning was revolutionary and it had no other. For what it meant to do it was from the beginning consistent in principle, resourceful, intelligent, masterly in workmanship, and it made not one mistake......

Having passed this crisis, the New Deal went on from one problem to another, taking them in the proper order, according to revolutionary technic; and if the handling of one was inconsistent with the handling of another, even to the point of nullity, that was blunder in reverse.

The effect was to keep people excited about one thing at a time, and divided, while steadily through all the uproar of outrage and confusion a certain end, held constantly in view, was pursued by main intention.

The end held constantly in view was power.


14 posted on 10/25/2013 12:52:52 PM PDT by 21twelve ("We've got the guns, and we got the numbers" adapted and revised from Jim M.)
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To: laplata
Cloward-Piven: Chaos.

Yes, that is just what it is. I have a feeling that that is a two edged sword though. 0bamaCare is going to stink so much so fast it may just be lib/Progressive policy that gets rejected in a wholesale fashion.

Progressivism has advanced as far as it has incrementally. The frog in the pot method. Clinton understood that and backed off when he saw that the American people were going to choke on it if he pushed any harder. Hill and Bill both understand that.

But 0bieWon thinks he's so smart that he can just shove it all through in one big push and it will be too late. I think he actually believes America will love the new socialist/commie state. I think he's wrong.

15 posted on 10/25/2013 1:00:41 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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