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[FONT=times new roman,times]"The Cloward-Piven Strategy of Orchestrated Crisis[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]In an [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]earlier post[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times], I noted the liberal record of unmitigated legislative disasters, the latest of which is now being played out in the financial markets before our eyes. Before the 1994 Republican takeover, Democrats had [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]sixty years[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times] of virtually unbroken power in Congress - with substantial majorities most of the time. Can a group of smart people, studying issue after issue for years on end, with virtually unlimited resources at their command, not come up with a single policy that works? Why are they chronically incapable?[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]Why? [/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]One of two things must be true. Either the Democrats are unfathomable idiots, who ignorantly pursue ever more destructive policies despite decades of contrary evidence, or they understand the consequences of their actions and relentlessly carry on anyway because they somehow benefit.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]I submit to you they understand the consequences. For many it is simply a practical matter of eliciting votes from a targeted constituency at taxpayer expense; we lose a little, they gain a lot, and the politician keeps his job. But for others, the goal is more malevolent - the failure is deliberate. Don't laugh. This method not only has its proponents, it has a name: the [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]Cloward-Piven Strategy[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]. It describes their agenda, tactics, and long-term strategy.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]The Strategy was first elucidated in the May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation magazine by a pair of radical socialist Columbia University professors, Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. David Horowitz summarizes it as:[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]Cloward and Piven were inspired by radical organizer [and Hillary Clinton mentor] Saul Alinsky:[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]Newsmax[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times] rounds out the picture:[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]In their Nation article, Cloward and Piven were specific about the kind of "crisis" they were trying to create:[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]No matter where the strategy is implemented, it shares the following features:[/FONT]
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[FONT=times new roman,times]"The Cloward-Piven Strategy of Orchestrated Crisis[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]In an [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]earlier post[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times], I noted the liberal record of unmitigated legislative disasters, the latest of which is now being played out in the financial markets before our eyes. Before the 1994 Republican takeover, Democrats had [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]sixty years[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times] of virtually unbroken power in Congress - with substantial majorities most of the time. Can a group of smart people, studying issue after issue for years on end, with virtually unlimited resources at their command, not come up with a single policy that works? Why are they chronically incapable?[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]Why? [/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]One of two things must be true. Either the Democrats are unfathomable idiots, who ignorantly pursue ever more destructive policies despite decades of contrary evidence, or they understand the consequences of their actions and relentlessly carry on anyway because they somehow benefit.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]I submit to you they understand the consequences. For many it is simply a practical matter of eliciting votes from a targeted constituency at taxpayer expense; we lose a little, they gain a lot, and the politician keeps his job. But for others, the goal is more malevolent - the failure is deliberate. Don't laugh. This method not only has its proponents, it has a name: the [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]Cloward-Piven Strategy[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]. It describes their agenda, tactics, and long-term strategy.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]The Strategy was first elucidated in the May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation magazine by a pair of radical socialist Columbia University professors, Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. David Horowitz summarizes it as:[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]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.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]Cloward and Piven were inspired by radical organizer [and Hillary Clinton mentor] Saul Alinsky:[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]"Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules," Alinsky wrote in his 1989 book Rules for Radicals. When pressed to honor every word of every law and statute, every Judeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit promise of the liberal social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short. The system's failure to "live up" to its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether, and to replace the capitalist "rule book" with a socialist one. (Courtesy [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]Discover the Networks.org[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times])[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]Newsmax[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times] rounds out the picture:[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]Their strategy to create political, financial, and social chaos that would result in revolution blended Alinsky concepts with their more aggressive efforts at bringing about a change in U.S. government. To achieve their revolutionary change, Cloward and Piven sought to use a cadre of aggressive organizers assisted by friendly news media to force a re-distribution of the nation's wealth.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]In their Nation article, Cloward and Piven were specific about the kind of "crisis" they were trying to create:[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]By crisis, we mean a publicly visible disruption in some institutional sphere. Crisis can occur spontaneously (e.g., riots) or as the intended result of tactics of demonstration and protest which either generate institutional disruption or bring unrecognized disruption to public attention.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]No matter where the strategy is implemented, it shares the following features:[/FONT]
- [FONT=times new roman,times]The offensive organizes previously unorganized groups eligible for government benefits but not currently receiving all they can. [/FONT]
- [FONT=times new roman,times]The offensive seeks to identify new beneficiaries and/or create new benefits.[/FONT]
- [FONT=times new roman,times]The overarching aim is always to impose new stresses on target systems, with the ultimate goal of forcing their collapse."[/FONT]
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