Posted on 09/14/2024 6:59:57 AM PDT by cutty
The Cloward-Piven strategy was developed by professors Richard Cloward and Francis Fox Piven during the 1960s. In their strategy, Cloward and Piven outlined a plan to implement monumental changes in America by abusing the nation to the point of destruction. Rather than dismissing this radical idea, the left has chosen to largely adopt the strategy and assist in its materialization.
The Cloward-Piven strategy was originally published as “The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty” in The Nation on May 2, 1966. The primary objective of the strategy is to create chaos with the hopes of destroying America’s capitalist economy and replacing it with a socialist system that includes guaranteed incomes. For their malicious dreams to come to fruition, Cloward and Piven recommended “a massive drive to recruit the poor onto the welfare rolls.” However, this is not because Cloward and Piven are altruists. Rather, they are anarchists. The point of surging welfare claims is to enroll as many individuals as it takes to send the United States into an economic crisis.
Cloward and Piven specifically mention targeting America’s large cities for their colossal welfare push. As Cloward and Piven put it, “A series of welfare drives in large cities would, we believe, impel action on a new federal program to distribute income.” The duo also asserts that conditions on benefits, such as work requirements, are “violations of civil liberties throughout the nation, and in a pervasive oppression of the poor.”
An artificially ballooned welfare system is not the only element of the Cloward-Piven strategy. In their blueprints, Cloward and Piven reveal that the best way to achieve their goals is to create a new loyal voting block out of the rapidly increasing number of welfare recipients. According to Cloward and Piven, “If organizers can deliver millions of dollars in cash benefits to the ghetto masses, it seems reasonable to expect that the masses will deliver their loyalty to their benefactors.” This is one of the oldest schemes in humanity’s existence: feudalism. This ancient structure is being developed in America today, particularly with record levels of illegal immigration. Through their complicity in the border crisis, the left is aiming to develop an army of loyal serfs who will work to destroy America, whether knowingly or unknowingly. This has been replicated numerous times, with tyrants throughout history importing non-citizens who are ultimately used against the best interests of the domestic population.
The theories of Cloward and Piven insist that the intentional destruction of America’s major systems will compel the federal government to develop a communist universal basic income program. This was explicitly stated by the pair when they wrote, “If this strategy were implemented, a political crisis would result that could lead to legislation for a guaranteed annual income.” The two reiterated this when declaring, “The ultimate aim of this strategy is a new program for direct income distribution.” Furthermore, both Cloward and Piven agreed that the mainstream media would play a critical role in their organized attack against America. To quote Cloward and Piven, “As the crisis develops, it will be important to use the mass media to inform the broader liberal community about the inefficiencies and injustices of welfare.”
All of this explains the policies of those on the radical left. In fact, Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the rest of the so-called “Squad” have been directly commended by Piven. To quote Piven, “What people like AOC are doing, what the Squad is doing, is really very important.” It should be noted that Piven is both an active member and honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Additionally, the Cloward-Piven strategy explains the left’s fixation on exploiting every crisis they possibly can. Back in 2008, Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, infamously proclaimed, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” Radical Democrats like Ocasio-Cortez have adhered to this notion. To advance the “Green New Deal” agenda, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez has bombastically alleged, “The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.” Ocasio-Cortez is by no means the first climate alarmist to place a doomsday timer on the planet. In 2006, Democrat Al Gore notoriously predicted, “Within the next 10 years, the world will reach a point of no return.” More recently, Democrats utilized the existence of COVID-19 to strategically enact illicit election rules and procedures, ultimately allowing them to obtain increased political power in 2020. Still, these are far from the only examples. The list of situations where leftists have maliciously created or exploited a crisis is seemingly endless.
Despite many parallels to the platform of modern Democrats, the Cloward-Piven strategy is rarely mentioned in major political discussions. While most of America ignores the strategy, it is being forced upon the developing and impressionable minds of children. In American high school curriculums, the Cloward-Piven strategy is praised and compared to the American Revolution. According to a lesson by University of Northern Colorado professor Christopher Muscato, “The Cloward-Piven strategy is a political gambit designed to overwhelm the American government by placing so many demands on the bureaucratic structure that it collapses…It may be messy, but it does hearken back to a fundamental ideology of the American republic: If it ain’t fixed, break it.”
The America outlined by Cloward and Piven has sadly now taken shape. Each and every day, the U.S. is infiltrated by a growing number of illegal immigrants. In an average month of Joe Biden’s presidency, at least 200,000 individuals will illegally enter the United States. Illegal crossings are only expected to increase after the recent expiration of Title 42. Estimates suggest that approximately 63% of non-citizens are actively accessing one or more forms of taxpayer-funded welfare. Comparatively, just 35% of U.S. households receive some form of welfare. A consistent influx of welfare recipients is exactly what Cloward and Piven proposed to ambush America. Furthermore, as was also proposed by Cloward and Piven, large cities are already expanding beyond simply bloated welfare rolls and towards a communist system that includes universal basic incomes. So-called universal basic income programs exist in at least 50 areas across the country. Significant cities include Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Austin, and New York. Many of the aforementioned projects have been directly funded by Biden’s radical “American Rescue Plan”. Finally, the mainstream media is actively executing their role in the Cloward-Piven strategy as well, colluding with progressives to advance narratives that are favorable to themselves.
The United States currently faces an existential threat under the leadership of Joe Biden. However, Biden is not the brain behind the disaster that America is living through. Instead, America’s immigration crisis and growing economic crisis were both plotted more than five decades ago by professors Cloward and Piven. The left had plans to make Biden’s America a reality as far back as the 1960s, but they lacked enough resources to do so. Now in the 2020s, the left has seized enough political power to be able to execute the Cloward-Piven strategy, and they are most definitely not letting any crisis which they have artificially created go to waste.
74% of Democrats and 85% of Republicans voted for passage of The 1965 Immigration Act.
September 28, 2008
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html
November 23, 2009
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/11/clowardpiven_government.html
The thing is they know it will be a “Long March”, it won’t happen overnight. But can anyone deny since Obama got into the White House, it has continued unabated, regardless of who has been in the White House?
“Cloward-Piven: The Strategy Being Used Against America”
Strikingly successful, it would appear. But their “success” leads to failure of just about everything else, sucking all resources down into a black hole.
Nobody seems able to say, “Enough! Stop!”
So the meat grinder keeps turning.
Soylent Green, anyone?
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It’s the frog boiling in the pot, they won’t notice until it’s too late.
Goes right along with obama’s idea.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
I’ve been sharing/reading about this CP/Manufactured Crisis process for almost two decades, first reading about it in the articles posted at my #22.
I saved these article on my old, old laptop and have shared, often.
Yes, the two theories go hand in hand.
Or, as Van Jones used to say, The ends justify the means.
I can believe you. I think that “Year Zero” is what it is going to feel like. People living in poverty and disease for about half as long as we live, today. And there will be no one to benefit from this.
I believe that it is a part of human nature that there will always be a large number of people willing to work twice as hard to steal what they could earn.
Thank you ..
Antonio Gramsci and Rudi Dutschke wrote about the long march through the institutions of western civilization = to destroy them for a Marxist revolution.
The worse part is the repubs are perfectly fine and are willing partners.
Very true but those two turds never figured their plan was almost but not strong enough to kill America but would kill rodent run cities and states,
“The 1965 Immigration Act marked the turning point when American immigration was no longer managed for the American interest. Thank Ted Kennedy, the swimmer.”
Immigration into the country was managed very well prior to 1965. Mass immigration was stopped in the 1920’s to allow immigrants to assimilate into society. Prior to 1965, there wasn’t any such thing as Birthright citizenship.
How absurd!
The number of people who think Biden is setting policy and making decisions around here is shocking.
And the Trump campaign fell right into the trap of designing a run against someone who was NEVER going to be the candidate they would have to beat on election day.
Ask Springfield, Ohio, how Cloward-Piven is working out for them.
I believe in Cloward-Piven for conservatives.
When Fed.gov goes bankrupt, the deep-state can no longer function and there’s the chance to return to the Constitution.
The thing is, they win both ways. If the result is a commie utopia, they can gloat over the victory of socialism. If the result is a burned out hellhole, they can gloat over destroying the great capitalist satan.
Success for them is to knock America off course from being the godly republic it was founded to be. The particular form that takes is open ended, with a range of acceptable outcomes including total destruction.
I too have saved stuff...but cannot find the story I thought I saved of the American businessman in Russia (1980s?) who had dinner with a Russian couple who after some drinking told him “you will have a President named Obama!” Do you by chance have that story?
Here are some quotes from Sall Alinsky from back in the day that, in retrospect, really resonate with a lot of what we are seeing.
https://www.azquotes.com/author/247-Saul_Alinsky?p=5
And now it comes out that Gov Tim Walzs was Paul Wellstone Academy graduate instructed in the method of Saul Alinsky and Cloward and Piven. Including being personally mentored by Francis Fox Piven.,
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